1997's Roll Call Of Honor

Following is a partial listing of scientists given honorary degrees at North American colleges and universities this spring: Bates College, Lewiston, Maine: Jane Lubchenco, Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University, Cornwallis Binghamton University, State University of New York: Arnold J. Levine, Harry C. Weiss Professor and chairman, department of molecular biology, Princeton University Brown University: Leo Esaki, president, University of Tsukuba, Japan; recipient of 1973 Nobel Prize in physics Augustus A. White, III, professor of orthopedic surgery, Harvard Medical School and Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology California Institute of Technology: David D. Ho, scientific director, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York; professor, Rockefeller University Case Western Reserve University: Paul Berg, Cahill Professor in Cancer Research, Stanford University; recipient of 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry Daniel S. Goldin, administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration June E. Osborn, president, Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation, New York Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport: Daniel S. Goldin, administrator, NASA Columbia University: Sidney Brenner, Honorary Professor of Genetic Medicine, University of Cambridge Clinical School Duke University: John H. Gibbons, director, Office of Science and Technology Policy Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology: David D. Ho, scientific director, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York; professor, Rockefeller University Harvard University: Edward P. Abraham, professor, emeritus, of chemical pathology, Oxford University Jerome S. Bruner, research professor of psychology, senior research fellow in law, New York University William H. Foege, Distinguished Professor, International Health Department, Emory University William J. Morgan, professor of geophysics and Knox Taylor Chair of Geography, Princeton University Haverford College, Haverford, Pa.: Joseph H. Taylor, Jr., James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory; recipient of 1993 Nobel Prize in physics Hunter College, City University of New York: Dorothea Zucker-Franklin, professor of medicine, New York University Medical Center Johns Hopkins University: William Fastie, research professor, emeritus, Johns Hopkins University Loyola-Marymount University, Los Angeles: France A. Cordova, vice chancellor, research, professor of physics, University of California, Santa Barbara McGill University: Alvan Feinstein, Sterling Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Yale University Jack Halpern, Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago Rene Simard, rector, University of Montreal; former president, Medical Research Council of Canada Monmouth University, West Long Branch, N.J.: Rosalyn S. Yalow, Solomon A. Berson Distinguished Professor at large, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, City University of New York; emerita distinguished professor at large, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University; recipient of 1977 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine New York University: Paolo Blasi, physicist, rector, University of Florence Northeastern Ohio Universities, Rootstown: Charles J. Epstein, professor of pediatrics; director, genetics clinic; and chief, division of medical genetics, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine Lois B. Epstein, professor, emerita, of pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science: Leslie Z. Benet, professor and chairman, department of biopharmaceutical sciences, University of California, San Francisco Robert N. Butler, founding director, National Institute on Aging; director, International Longevity Center, New York Louis W. Sullivan, President, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta; former secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Princeton University: Bruce M. Alberts, president, National Academy of Sciences Queens College, Flushing, N.Y.: Charles H. Hennekens, Eugene Brunwald Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Rockefeller University: Christian de Duve, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Emeritus, Rockefeller University; professor emeritus, biochemistry, University of Louvain, Belgium; founder, president, International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology, Brussels Thomas Jefferson University/Jefferson Medical College: Floyd E. Bloom, chairman, department of neuropharmacology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif.; editor-in-chief, Science Tufts University Medical School: Peter C. Doherty, Michael F. Tamer Chair in Biomedical Research, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.; recipient of 1996 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md.: C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General; senior scholar, C. Everett Koop Institute, Dartmouth College University of Arizona: Harry B. Gray, Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and director, Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology University of Chicago: Carl Weiman, professor of physics, fellow, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder University of Connecticut, Storrs: David M. Lee, professor of physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; recipient of 1996 Nobel Prize in physics University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Rudolph A. Marcus, Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology; recipient of 1992 Nobel Prize in chemistry Robert L. Metcalf, professor, emeritus, of entomology, University of Illinois University of Maryland, Baltimore: Kenneth I. Shine, president, Institute of Medicine, clinical professor of medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine Harold C. Slavkin, director, National Institute of Dental Research University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Carl Djerassi, professor of chemistry, Stanford University Donna E. Shalala, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services University of Michigan: Sergei Godunov, professor and chairman, Department of Partial Differential Equations, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia University of Notre Dame: Leon M. Lederman, director, emeritus, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Ill., Pritzker Professor of Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago; recipient of 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics University of Pennsylvania: William H. Danforth, chairman, Board of Trustees, former chancellor, Washington University, St. Louis Louis Sokoloff, chief, Laboratory of Cerebral Metabolism, National Institute of Mental Health Ahmed H. Zewail, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology University of Pittsburgh: D. Allan Bromley, dean of engineering and Sterling Professor of the Sciences, Yale University.; former director, Office of Science and Technology Policy University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Wash.: Freeman Dyson, professor, emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. University of Rochester College of Medicine: J. Michael Bishop, University Professor, University of California, San Francisco; recipient of 1989 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Washington University, St. Louis: William H. Daughaday, professor, emeritus, of medicine, Washington University, St. Louis; clinical professor of medicine, University of California, Irvine Yale University: Alfred G. Gilman, professor and chairman of pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; recipient of 1994 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Mario J. Molina, Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; recipient of 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry York College, City University of New York: Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose Director, Hayden Planetarium and visiting research scientist, Princeton University

1997's Roll Call Of Honor

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