A noted Israeli physicist is among the 15 Jewish scientists chosen by the National Academy of Sciences in electing 42 new members yesterday. Election is a form of public recognition of accomplishment in a wide range of scientific fields.
The Israeli member is Dr. Ephraim Katchalski, head of the department of biophysics at the Weitzman Institute of Science and winner of many awards for his work in that field. The American Jewish new members include: Dr. Paul Berg, of the Stanford University School of Medicine; Dr. Jacob Bigeleisen of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dr. Bernard B. Brodie of the National Heart Institute; Norman Henry Giles of Yale University; Clifford Grobstein of the University of California at San Diego; Jacob George Harrar of the Rockefeller Foundation; and Arthur Kantrowitz of the Avco Corporation.
Also, Dr. Irving Kaplansky of the University of Chicago; Philip Levine of the Ortho Research Foundation. Nathan M. Newmark of the University of Minois; Ephraim Racker of the Public Health Research Institute of the City of New York; Harold A. Scheraga of Cornell University; Samuel I. Weissman of Washington University; and Charles Yanofsky of Stanford University.
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