Noted American Jewish Scientists Elected to Academy of Sciences

At least five American Jewish scientists were among a list of 35 noted scholars and researchers elected to membership here last night by the National Academy of Sciences. Another Jewish scientist, Dr. Hans Krebs, of England, who shared the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine in 1953, was among six foreign scholars chosen by the Academy as associate members.

The five American Jewish scientists newly added to the Academy’s membership rolls are: Dr. Lipman Bers, professor of mathematics at New York University; Dr. Louis Barkhouse Flexner, professor of anatomy and director of the Institute of Neurological Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, who is also research associate in the department of embryology at the Carnegie Institute in Washington.

Also, Dr. Alfred Gilman, professor of pharmacology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, New York; Dr. Philip Handler, James B. Duke, professor of biochemistry at Duke University School of Medicine; and Dr. Hans Lewy, professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.