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Houston, W. V. (1962) NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES July 1, 1959 OFFICERS Term expires President-Detlev W. Bronk June 30, 1962 Vice President-Farrington Daniels June 30, 1961 Home Secretary-Hugh L. Dryden June 30, 1963 Foreign Secretary-H. P. Robertson June 30, 1962 Treasurer-William J. Robbins June 30, 1960 Executive Officer Business Manager S. D. Cornell G. D. Meid COUNCIL Adams, Roger (1962) Mac Lane, Saunders (1961) *Bronk, Detlev W. (1962) *Robbins, William J. (1960) *Daniels, Farrington (1961) *Robertson, H. P. (1962) *Dryden, Hugh L. (1963) *Seitz, Frederick (1960) Francis, Thomas, Jr. (1961) *Shapiro, Harry L. (1960) Houston, W. V. (1962) MEMBERS The number in parentheses, following year of election, indicates the Section to which the member belongs, as follows: (1) Mathematics (8) Zoology and Anatomy (2) Astronomy (9) Physiology (3) Physics (10) Pathology and Microbiology (4) Engineering (11) Anthropology (5) Chemistry (12) Psychology (6) Geology (13) Geophysics (7) Botany (14) Biochemistry Abbot, Charles Greeley, 1915 (2), Smithsonian Institution, Washington 25, D. C. Abelson, Philip Hauge, 1959 (6), Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 2801 Upton Street, N. W., Washington 8, D. C. Adams, Leason Heberling, 1943 (13), Institute of Geophysics, University of California, Los Angeles 24, California Adams, Roger, 1929 (5), Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Ahlfors, Lars Valerian, 1953 (1), Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts Albert, Abraham Adrian, 1943 (1), Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chicago 37, Illinois Albright, William Foxwell, 1955 (11), Oriental Seminary, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 18, Maryland Alexander, James Waddell, 1930 (1), 29 Cleveland Lane, Princeton, New Jersey * Members of the Executive Committee of the Council of the Academy. 1101 Downloaded by guest on October 1, 2021 1102 N. A. S. ORGANIZATION PRoc. N. A. S. Allen, Eugene Thomas, 1930 (6), 135 Pleasant Street, Arlington 74, Massachusetts Allison, Samuel King, 1946 (3), The Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago 37, Illinois Alvarez, Luis Walter, 1947 (3), Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley 4, California Anderson, Carl David, 1938 (3), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 4, California Anderson, Charles Alfred, 1957 (6), United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, Washington 25, D. C. Anderson, Edgar, 1954 (7), Missouri Botanical Garden, 2315 Tower Grove Ave- nue, St. Louis 10, Missouri Anderson, Rudolph John, 1946 (14), 101 Cottage Street, New Haven 11, Connecticut Armstrong, Charles, 1944 (10), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda 14, Mary- land Artin, Emil, 1958 (1), Universitit Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Astwood, Edwin Bennett, 1957 (9), New England Center Hospital, Harrison Avenue and Bennet Street, Boston 11, Massachusetts Aub, Joseph Charles, 1957 (9), Massachusetts General Hospital, Fruit Street, Boston 14, Massachusetts Babcock, Harold Delos, 1933 (2), 1820 Atchison Street, Pasadena, California Babcock, Horace Welcome, 1954 (2), Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena 4, California Bacher, Robert Fox, 1947 (3), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Cali- fornia Badger, Richard McLean, 1952 (5), Gates and Crellin Laboratories of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 4, California Bailey, Percival, 1953 (10), Illinois State Psychiatric Institute, 1601 West Taylor Street, Chicago 12, Illinois Bain, Edgar Collins, 1954 (4), 434 Maple Lane, Edgeworth, Sewickley, Pennsyl- vania Bainbridge, Kenneth Tompkins, 1946 (3), Department of Physics, Harvard Uni- versity, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts Ball, Eric Glendinning, 1948 (14), Department of Biological Chemistry, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston 15, Massachusetts Balls, Arnold Kent, 1954 (14), 1988 Thousand Oaks Boulevard, Berkeley 7, Cali- fornia Bard, Philip, 1944 (9), School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 710 North Washington Street, Baltimore 5, Maryland Bardeen, John, 1954 (3), Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Barker, Horace Albert, 1953 (7), Department of Biochemistry, 337 Biochemistry and Virus Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley 4, California Bartelmez, George William, 1949 (8), 224 Agnes, Avenue, Missoula, Montana Bartlett, Paul Doughty, 1947 (5), Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts Beach, Frank Ambrose, 1949 (12), Department of Psychology, University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley 4, California Downloaded by guest on October 1, 2021 VOL. 45, 1959 MEMBERS 1103 Beadle, George Wells, 1944 (7), Division of Biology, California Institute of Tech- nology, Pasadena, California Beams, Jesse Wakefield, 1943 (3), Physics Laboratory, University of Virginia, McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Virginia Bell, Eric Temple, 1927 (1), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 4, California Benedict, Manson, 1956 (4), Department of Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 39, Massachusetts Benioff, Victor Hugo, 1953 (13), Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 220 North San Rafael Avenue, Pasadena 2, California Berkner, Lloyd Viel, 1948 (13), Associated Universities, Incorporated, 10 Columbus Circle, New York 19, New York Bethe, Hans Albrecht, 1944 (3), Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Bigelow, Henry Bryant, 1931 (8), Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Oxford Street, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts Birch, Albert Francis, 1950 (6), Dunbar Laboratory, Harvard University, Cam- bridge 38, Massachusetts Birge, Raymond Thayer, 1932 (3), University of California, Berkeley 4, California Bjerknes, Jacob, 1947 (13), Department of Meteorology, University of California, Los Angeles 24, California Blackwelder, Eliot, 1936 (6), P. 0. Box N, Stanford, California Blalock, Alfred, 1945 (10), Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore 5, Maryland Bleakney, Walker, 1959 (3), P. 0. Box 708, Palmer Physical Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Blinks, Lawrence Rogers, 1955 (7), Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, Pacific Grove, California Bloch, Felix, 1948 (3), Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California Bloch, Konrad Emil, 1956 (14), Department of Chemistry, Harvard University. 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts Bloom, William, 1954 (8), University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago 37, Illinois Bochner, Salomon, 1950 (1), Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Box 708, Princeton, New Jersey Bode, Hendrik Wade, 1957 (4), Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Whip- pany, New Jersey Bodenstein, Dietrich H. F. A., 1958 (8), Gerontology Branch, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore City Hospitals, Baltimore 24, Maryland Bodian, David, 1958 (8), Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Johns Hop- kins University, 709 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore 5, Maryland Bolton, Elmer K., 1946 (5), 2310 West 11th Street, Wilmington, Delaware Bonner, David Mahlon, 1959 (7), Department of Microbiology, Yale University. 310 Cedar Street, New Haven 11, Connecticut Bonner, James Frederick, 1950 (7), Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 4, California Downloaded by guest on October 1, 2021 1104 N. A. S. ORGANIZATION PROC. N. A. S. Bonner, Tom Wilkerson, 1959 (3), Department of Physics, The Rice Institute, Houston, Texas Boring, Edwin Garrigues, 1932 (12), Memorial Hall, Harvard University, Cam- bridge 38, Massachusetts Bowen, Ira Sprague, 1936 (2), Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, California Bradbury, Norris Edwin, 1951 (3), Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, P. 0. Box 1663, Los Alamos, New Mexico Bradley, Wilmot Hyde, 1946 (6), United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, Washington 25, D. C. Bramlette, Milton Nunn, 1954 (6), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California Brattain, Walter Houser, 1959 (3), Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, New Jersey Brauer, Richard Dagobert, 1955 (1), Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts Breit, Gregory, 1939 (3), Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, P. 0. Box 2014, New Haven 11, Connecticut Brewer, Leo, 1959 (5), Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley 4, California Bridgman, Percy Williams, 1918 (3), Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts Briggs, Lyman James, 1942 (4), National Bureau of Standards, Washington 25, D. C. Brillouin, Leon, 1953 (3), 88 Central Park West, New York 23, New York Brink, Frank, Jr., 1959 (9), Rockefeller Institute, New York 21, New York Brink, Royal Alexander, 1947 (7), Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison 6, Wisconsin Brode, Robert Bigham, 1949 (3), Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley 4, California Brode, Wallace Reed, 1954 (5), Department of State, Washington 25, D. C. Bronk, Detlev Wulf, 1939 (9), Rockefeller Institute, New York 21, New York Brouwer, Dirk, 1951 (2), Yale University Observatory, Box 2023, Yale Station, New Haven, Connecticut Brown, Harrison Scott, 1955 (13), Division of Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California Brown, Herbert Charles, 1957 (5), Department of Chemistry, Purdue
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