1. Gerald M. Edelman, a Fellow of the American Academy since 1968, is director of the Neurosciences Institute as well as chair of, and professor in, the Department of Neurobiology at the Scripps Research Institute. His publications include “The Mindful Brain” (1978), “The Remembered Present” (1989), and “Wider Than the Sky” (2004). He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1972.