Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS) is an honor accorded by the

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(AAAS) to distinguished persons who are members of the Association. Fellows are elected annually by the AAAS Council for "efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications

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are scientifically or socially distinguished". Examples of areas in which nominees may have made significant contributions are research; teaching; technology; services to professional societies; administration in academe, industry, and government; and communicating and interpreting science to the public. The association has awarded fellowships since 1874. AAAS publishes annual update of active Fellows list, which also provides email address to verify status of non-active Fellows. See also :Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for more examples.

AAAS Fellows

AAAS Fellows include

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winners Michael W. Young and

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, ACM

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winner David Patterson, IEEE Medal of Honor winner Irwin M. Jacobs, and

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Fellow Natalie Roe. Maria Elena Zavala, who is a recipient of the

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, is also a Fellow. Other fellows includes Jiaxing Huang, and Duan Xiangfeng, a materials scientist who received the Beilby Medal and Prize in 2013. Image:Michael Rosbash EM1B8756 (38847326642).jpg, Nobel Prize:
Michael Rosbash Image:David A Patterson.jpg, ACM Turing Award: David Patterson Image:Irwin Jacobs.jpg, IEEE Medal of Honor: Irwin Jacobs

Revocation for harassment

Starting 15 October 2018, the status of a Fellow can be revoked "in cases of proven

scientific misconduct Scientific misconduct is the violation of the standard codes of scholarly method, scholarly conduct and ethics, ethical behavior in the publication of professional science, scientific research. It is the violation of scientific integrity: violati ...

, serious breaches of

professional ethics Professional ethics encompass the personal and corporate standards of behavior expected of professionals. The word professionalism originally applied to vows of a religious order. By no later than the year 1675, the term had seen secular appli ...

, or when the Fellow in the view of the AAAS otherwise no longer merits the status of Fellow". This is to limit the effects and tolerance of

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, which Margaret Hamburg, the president of the AAAS said "has no place in science". This ruling has allowed AAAS to sanction Francisco Ayala, formerly of

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; Thomas Jessell, formerly of

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; Lawrence Krauss, of Arizona State University, Tempe; and Inder Verma, formerly of the

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References

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