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National Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting National Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting The 107th Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences was held on April 27-29, 1970, in Washington, D.C. Academy Awards were presented at a ceremony held in the Great Hall on Monday evening. The presentation was followed by an informal reception for members and their guests in honor of the award recipients. At the Academy Dinner on Tuesday night, Barnaby C. Keeney, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, was the guest speaker. Scientific sessions were comprised of symposia, sessions of in- vited papers, and contributed papers. Abstracts of contributed papers and groups of invited papers appear in this issue. PRESENTATION OF ACADEMY AWARDS George P. Merrill Award KLAUS KEIL, University of New Mexico National Academy of Sciences Award in Microbiology EARL REECE STADTMAN, National Heart and Lung Institute U.S. Steel Foundation Award in Molecular Biology ARMIN DALE KAISER, Stanford University Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal THOMAS FRANCIS, JR. (Posthumous presentation), University of Michigan Mary Clark Thompson Medal RAYMOND CECIL MOORE, University of Kansas J. Lawrence Smith Medal EDWARD PORTER HENDERSON, Smithsonian Institution Downloaded by guest on September 30, 2021 222 N. A. S. ANNUAL MEETING 1970 PROC. N. A. S. Monday Morning: SYMPOSIUM ON THE CRISIS IN FEDERAL FUNDING OF SCIENCE CURRENT PROBLEMS Moderator: HARVEY BROOKS Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts WILLIAM G. ANLYAN, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina HERBERT E. CARTER, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois CARL M. YORK, Office of Science and Technology, Washington, D. C. VICTOR F. WEISSKOPF, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts YARON EzRAHI, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts FUTURE COURSES Moderator: EMANUEL R. PIoRE International Business Machines Corporation Armonk, New York IVAN L. BENNETT, JR., New York University Medical Center, New York, New York CHARLES V. KIDD, The Association of American Universities, Washington, D. C. PHILIP ABELSON, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C. ALAN PIFER, Carnegie Corporation of New York, New York PATRICK E. HAGGERTY, Texas Instruments, Incorporated, Dallas, Texas INVITED PAPERS ON PHYSICAL METHODS IN STEROIDS Chairman: FREDERICK T. WALL American Chemical Society Washington, D. C. JOHN D. ROBERTS, H. J. REICH, M. JAUTELAT, M. T. MESSE, R. A. SMITH, and F. J. WEIGERT, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California: Carbon-13 Mag- netic Resonance for Structural Analysis of Steroids. CARL DJERASSI, Stanford University, Stanford, California: Recent Applications of Mass Spectrometry in the Steroid Field. PIERRE CRABBE, Research Laboratories, Syntex, S. A., Mexico City, Mexico: Some Novel Optical Rotatory Dispersion and Circular Dichroism Studies in the Steroid Field. Downloaded by guest on September 30, 2021 VOL. 66, 1970 N. A. S. ANNUAL M1EETING 1970 223 Monday Afternoon: SYMPOSIUM ON VIRUS GENOME EFFECTS IN NORMAL AND CANCER CELLS Chairman: ROBERT J. HUEBNER GORDON M. TOMKINS, San Francisco Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, California: Censorship of Genetic Information: Gene Regulation in Mam- malian Cells. SOL SPIEGELMAN, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, New York: A Molecular Approach to the Oncogenic RNA Viruses. MAURICE GREEN, St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri: DNA and RNA Viral Gene Expression in Cell Transformation and Cancer. ROBERT J. HUEBNER, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland: Is Cancer Due to an Inherited RNA Viral Genome? PETER BENTVELZEN, Radiobiological Institute of the Organization for Health Research TNO, Rijswijk, The Netherlands: Genetic Transmission of Mammary Tumour Incit- ing Viruses in Alice. INVITED PAPERS ON THE BARBADOS SEA-AIR EXPERIMENT OF 1969 AND THE PROBING OF THE ATMOSPHERE BY REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES Chairman: THOMAS F. MALONE The Travelers Insurance Company Hartford, Connecticut JOSHUA Z. HOLLAND, Environmental Science Services Administration, Rockville, Mary- land: An Overview of the 1969 Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experi- ment. RICHARD J. REED, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington: New Perspectives on the Structure and Organization of Tropical Weather Systems. DAVID ATLAS, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Ultra-High Resolution Atmos- pheric Radar Probing. C. GORDON LITTLE, Environmental Science Services Administration Research Labora- tories, Boulder, Colorado: Multistation Doppler Radar and Acoustic Echo-Sounding of the Atmosphere. Downloaded by guest on September 30, 2021 224 N. A. S. ANNUAL MEETING 1970 PROC. N. A. S. Wednesday Morning: SYMPOSIUM ON AIDS AND THREATS TO SOCIETY FROM TECHNOLOGY Chairman: RUSSELL E. TRAIN Council on Environmental Quality Washington, D. C. J. ERIK JONSSON, Texas Instruments, Incorporated, and Mayor, Dallas, Texas: Priorities of Attack on Urban Problems. T. Y. LIN, University of California, Berkeley, California: Recent Technological Develop- ments in Housing Construction. IRVING K. Fox, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin: Gamesmanship in the Making of Standards of Tolerance. ARIE J. HAAGEN-SMIT, State of California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, California: A Message from the Smog Capitol of the World. GEORGE S. BENTON, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland: Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere and its Role in Climatic Change. J. GEORGE HARRAR, Rockefeller Foundation, New York, New York: The Global Food Supply. JAMES V. NEEL, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Threat of Chemical Mutagenesis to Man. INVITED PAPERS ON AUSTRALIA ANTIGEN AND HEPATITIS Chairman: CECIL JAMES WATSON University of Minnesota Medical Unit Minneapolis, Minnesota BARUCH S. BLUMBERG, Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Persistence of Australia Antigen and its Relations to Chronic Hepatitis. LEWELLYS F. BARKER, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland: Australia Antigen. Isolation, Purification and Physical Properties. W. THOMAS LONDON, Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Transmission of Australia Antigen to Man and Non-Human Primates. Downloaded by guest on September 30, 2021 VOL. 66, 1970 N. A. S. ANNUAL M1EETING 1970 225 Wednesday Morning: INVITED PAPERS ON DNA Chairman: JAMES D. EBERT Carnegie Institution of Washington Baltimore, Maryland ROY J. BRITTEN, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C.: Discrete Components of the Repetitive DNA of Higher Organisms. JOSEPH G. GALL and MARY Lou PARDUE, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut: Nucleic Acid Hybridization in Cytological Preparations. DONALD D. BRowN, IGOR B. DAWID, and RONALD H. REEDER, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, Maryland: The Isolation and Characterization of the Genes for Ribosomal RNA from the Amphibian Xenopus leavis. OSCAR L. MILLER, JR. and BARBARA R. BEATTY, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee: Visualization of Nucleolar Genes at Work. Wednesday Afternoon: INVITED PAPERS ON CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS Chairman: DAviD E. GREEN University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin JOHN H. YOUNG, GEORGE A. BLONDIN, G. VANDERKOOI, and DAVID E. GREEN, Uni- versity of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin: Conformational Model of Active Transport. BRITrON CHANCE, GEORGE RADDA, and CHUAN-PU LEE, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Functionality of Membrane Structure Changes in Electron Transport and Energy Coupling. MANUEL F. MORALES, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California: Conformation and Displacement in Muscle Contraction. LUBERT STRYER and ALAN S. WAGGONER, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut: Fluorescent Probes of the Structure and Dynamics of Biological Membranes. Downloaded by guest on September 30, 2021 226 N. A. S. ANNLTAL MEETING 1970 PROC. N. A. S. Wednesday Afternoon: SYMPOSIUM ON ASTRONOMICAL TOPICS Chairman: HERBERT FRIEDMAN U. S. Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D. C. JAMES R. ARNOLD, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California: Scientific Results from Apollo 11. CHARLES H. TOWNES, University of California, Berkeley, California: Interstellar Poly- atomic Molecules. J. BEVERLY OKE, Hale Observatories, Pasadena, California: Nuclei of Galaxies. A. G. W. CAMERON, Yeshiva University, New York, New York; Physics of Neutron Stars. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS Monday Afternoon: CURT P. RICHTER, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland: Blood-Clock Barrier: Its Penetration by Heavy Water. (10 minutes) S. J. SINGER, J. D. MCLEAN, K. TOKUYASU, and H. HIRANO, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California: The Staining of Specific Macromolecules for Electron Microscopy. (10 minutes) HARRY F. HARLOW and STEPHEN J. SUOMI, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wiscon- sin: Induction and Treatment of Psychiatric States in Monkeys. (10 minutes) BERTA SCHARRER, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York: Ultrastruc- tural Study of the Sites of Origin and Release of a Cellular Product in the Corpus Allatum of Insects. (10 minutes) LAWRENCE R. BLINKS, Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California: The Reversal of Bio-Electric Potential of Valonia and Boergesenia by Oxidants. (10 minutes) ARTHUR D. HASLER, ROSS M. HORRALL, AIvARS B. STASKO, and ANDREW E. DIZON, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin: Orientation Cues and Tracking of Migrating Salmonid
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