AAS Members Elected as 2023 AAAS Fellows

This post is adapted from a press release of the American Association for the Advancement of Science:

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected 502 scientists, engineers, and innovators to the 2023 class of AAAS Fellows, a lifetime distinction that honors their invaluable contributions to science and technology. Among these honorees are a number of AAS members:

• Lori E. Allen, NSF’s NOIRLab 
• Daniel Apai, University of Arizona 
• Günther Eichhorn, Springer Science+Business Media 
• B. Scott Gaudi, The Ohio State University 
• Sethanne Howard, U.S. Naval Observatory (Retired) 
• Anneila I. Sargent, California Institute of Technology
• Kate Scholberg, Duke University 
• Nicholas Suntzeff, Texas A&M University 

If you're a new AAAS Fellow and are missing from this list, please email us and we'll remedy the omission. (Sometimes an AAS member is elected by a section other than Astronomy, making it harder to spot them!)

Fellows are elected each year by their peers serving on the Council of AAAS, the organization’s member-run governing body. The honor recognizes diverse accomplishments, including pioneering research, leadership within a given field, teaching and mentoring, fostering collaborations, and advancing public understanding of science. The 2023 group will receive a certificate and a gold and blue rosette pin (representing science and engineering, respectively) to commemorate their election, and they will be celebrated at a forum on 21 September 2024. That evening, AAAS will also celebrate the program’s 150th anniversary at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. The 2023 Fellows class will also be featured in the AAAS News & Notes section of the journal Science in April 2024.

The tradition of electing AAAS Fellows began in 1874. Since then, the recognition has gone to thousands of distinguished scientists, such as astronomer Maria Mitchell, elected in 1875, inventor Thomas Edison (1878), anthropologist Margaret Mead (1934), computer scientist Grace Hopper (1963), and popular science author Jared Diamond (2000).

The full list of 2023 AAAS Fellows is available here.