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; recipien

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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

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