NOTED: Benedict Gross may be best known these days for presiding over Harvard undergraduates as dean of the college, but he is also a distinguished mathematician who studies "unramified reciprocal polynomials," among other things. He was honored last week with election to the National Academy of Sciences, an advisory board of the nation's top researchers. Among the 71 other new inductees are Biologist Nancy Hopkins, who led the charge to recognize discrimination against women at MIT, and geophysics professor Maria Zuber, the first woman to head a science department at MIT.

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