National Academy of Sciences
science branch of the United States National Academies
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The National Academy of Sciences is an organization with the National Research Council as its parent organization.
Key Facts
- Member of: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine[3], InterAcademy Partnership[4], International Science Council[5], Association of Public Data Users[6]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Washington, D.C.[7]
- Country: United States[8]
- Instance of: publishing house[9], academic publisher[10], production company[11]
- Headquarters location: National Academy of Sciences building[12]
- Child organization or unit: American Institute of Biological Sciences[13]
- Commons category: United States National Academy of Sciences[14]
- Chairperson: Neil Shubin[15]
- Inception: March 3, 1863[16]
- Parent organization or unit: National Research Council[17], National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine[18]
- Official website: http://www.nasonline.org/[19], https://www.nasonline.org/[20]
- Topic's main category: Category:United States National Academy of Sciences[21]
- Topic has template: Template:National Academy of Sciences[22]
- Native label: The National Academy of Sciences[23]
- Short name: NAS[24]
- ACM Classification Code (2012): 10011220[25]
- Language used: English[26]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher[27]
- Grants: awards of the United States National Academy of Sciences[28]
- Member category: Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences[29]
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Brands and Namesakes
Things named for National Academy of Sciences include Academy Glacier[30], a glacier[31].
Why It Matters
National Academy of Sciences has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 99 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]
Works attributed to it include Proceedings of the it of the United States of America[34], a scientific journal[35], founded in 1915[36], headquartered in Washington, D.C.[37] and Memoirs of the it[38], a scientific journal[39], in United States[40], founded in 1866[41]. Entities named for it include Academy Glacier[30], a glacier[31].