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At no time in our nation's history has there been a greater need for our leaders to appreciate the
value of science in formulating public policy.
The enormous increases in living standards and life expectancies over the past two centuries are
largely the result of advances in science and technology. Kamala Harris recognizes this and
understands that maintaining America's leadership in these fields requires budgetary support
from the federal government, independent universities, and international collaboration. Harris
also recognizes the key role that immigrants have always played in the advancement of science.
Should Donald Trump win the presidential election, he would undermine future US leadership on
these and other fronts, as well as jeopardize any advancements in our standards of living, slow
the progress of science and technology, and impede our responses to climate change.
This is the most consequential presidential election in a long time, perhaps ever, for the future of
science and the United States. We, the undersigned, strongly support Harris.
Signed,
Peter Agre
Chemistry 2003
Frances H. Arnold
Chemistry 2018
David Baker
Chemistry 2024
Moungi G. Bawendi Chemistry 2023
Martin Chalfie
Chemistry 2008
Elias James Corey,
Chemistry 1990
Johann Deisenhofer
Chemistry 1988
Joachim Frank
Chemistry 2017
Alan Heeger
Roald Hoffmann
Brian K. Kobilka
Chemistry 2000
Chemistry 1981
Chemistry 2012
Roger D. Kornberg
Chemistry 2006
Robert J. Lefkowitz
Chemistry 2012
Michael Levitt
Chemistry 2013
William E. Moerner Chemistry 2014
Richard R. Schrock Chemistry 2005
Sir James Fraser Stoddart
Chemistry 2016
Sir M. Stanley Whittingham Chemistry 2019










Daron Acemoglu
Economics 2024
George A. Akerlof
Economics 2001
Abhijit Banerjee
Economics 2019
Sir Angus S. Deaton Economics 2015
Peter A. Diamond
Economics 2010
Esther Duflo
Economics 2019
Robert F. Engle III
Economics 2003
Claudia Goldin
Economics 2023
Sir Oliver Hart
Economics 2016
Guido W. Imbens
Economics 2021
Eric S. Maskin
Economics 2007
Daniel L. McFadden Economics 2000
Robert C. Merton
Economics 1997
Roger B. Myerson
Economics 2007
William D. Nordhaus Economics 2018
Edmund S. Phelps
Economics 2006
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Economics 2001
James P. Allison
Medicine 2018
Harvey J. Alter
Medicine 2020
David Baltimore
Medicine 1975
J. Michael Bishop
Medicine 1989
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Medicine 2009
Michael S. Brown
Medicine 1985
Mario R. Capecchi
Medicine 2007
Peter C. Doherty
Medicine 1996
Joseph L. Goldstein Medicine 1985
Carol W. Greider
Medicine 2009
Jeffrey Connor Hall
Medicine 2017










Leland H. Hartwell
Medicine 2001
H. Robert Horvitz
Medicine 2002
Louis J. Ignarro
Craig C. Mello
Medicine 1998
Medicine 2006
John O'Keefe
Medicine 2014
Ardem Patapoutian
Medicine 2021
Charles M. Rice
Medicine 2020
Sir Richard J. Roberts Medicine 1993
Michael Rosbash
Gary Ruvkun
Medicine 2017
Medicine 2024
Randy W. Schekman Medicine 2013
Gregg L. Semenza
Medicine 2019
Hamilton O. Smith
Medicine 1978
Jack W. Szostak
Medicine 2009
Harold E. Varmus
Medicine 1989
Drew Weissman
Medicine 2023
Eric F. Wieschaus
Medicine 1995
Torsten N. Wiesel
Medicine 1981
Barry Clark Barish
Steven Chu
Physics 2017
Physics 1997
Jerome I. Friedman
Physics 1990
Sheldon Glashow
Physics 1979
David J. Gross
Physics 2004
John J. Hopfield
Physics 2024
Wolfgang Ketterle
Physics 2001
Anthony J. Leggett Physics 2003
John C. Mather
Physics 2006
James Peebles
Physics 2019










H. David Politzer
Physics 2004
Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
Physics 1993
Kip Stephen Thorne
Physics 2017
Daniel C. Tsui
Physics 1998
Rainer Weiss
Physics 2017
Carl E. Wieman
Physics 2001
Frank Wilczek
Physics 2004
Robert Woodrow Wilson
Physics 1978











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