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The congressional board of the Office of Technology Assessment appointed four new members to four-year terms on the Technology Assessment Advisory Council, effective February 1988: Neil Han, Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Economics, Iowa State University; James C. Hunt, chancellor of the Health Science Center and vice president for health affairs, University of Tennessee; Joshua Lederberg, president, Rockefeller University; and Sally Ride, Stanford University. Center for International Security and Arms Control. Charles Elachi, former manager of the California Institute of Technology and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Earth and Space Sciences Division, became the first assistant laboratory director for JPL’s new Office of Space Science and Instruments November 2. He has served as principal investigator on several NASA projects and conducted research on the applications of spaceborne imaging radar. Thomas E. Lovejoy, scientist, conservationist and former executive vice president of the World Wildlife Fund, became the first Smithsonian Institution assistant secretary for external affairs November 16. Since 1982 Lovejoy has been a member of the Smithsonian Council, the institution’s advisory body of scholars in the arts, sciences and humanities. Leon E. Rosenberg, dean of Yale University’s School of Medicine, was elected to SmithKline Beckman Corporation’s board of directors October 28. Rosenberg, a specialist in clinical genetics and inherited metabolic disorders, has taught at the university since 1965 and conducted research on inherited enzyme-deficiency disorders. AWARDS On November 9 the Department of Energy announced that Luis W. Alvarez, professor of physics emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley and senior scientist emeritus at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Gerald F. Tape, consultant for Associated Universities, Inc., were winners of the 1987 Enrico Fermi Award, DOE’s highest scientific award. The $100,000 award is given annually for outstanding contributions to the development, use or control of atomic energy. Alvarez was honored for his contributions to the physical sciences and their application to other fields. Tape was honored for work on the advancement of nuclear power and the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. Wallace S. Broecker, geochemist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, and Harmon Craig, geochemist and oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, were jointly awarded the 1987 Vetleson Prize by the Trustees of Columbia November 5. The $100,000 prize was funded by the G. Unger Vetleson Foundation of New York. The prize panel cited the two for having “done more to characterize the chemistry of the oceans and its exchange with the atmosphere and the solid earth than any other scientists.” Barry Goldwater, former Arizona Republican senator, was recently awarded the Smithsonian Institution’s Samuel P. Langley Medal. Goldwater was honored for his contributions to aviation and his role in building the Air and Space Museum. The Swiss-based DoerenkampZbinden Foundation, which is interested in animal protection, presented its 1986 scientific award to four scientists from the National Institute of Dental Research: Adriana Albini, Yukihide Iwamoto, Hynda Kleinman and George Martin. The NIDR researchers received the $26,000 award at a Johns Hopkins School of Public Health symposium earlier this month for their development of a rapid in vitro assay that measures the invasiveness of tumor cells and reduces the need for animal studies. The Third Biannual Awards for Contributions to Hemostasis were presented November 3 in New York in honor of Sol Sherry of Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa., for his contributions to the field and for his research in fibrinolysis. Aaron J. Marcus, New York Veterans Administration Medical Center, presented five Distinguished Career Awards: Kenneth G. Mann, University of Vermont; Ralph L. Nachman, Cornell University Medical College; Samuel I. Rapaport, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine; Robert D. Rosenburg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and James G. White, University of Minnesota School of Medicine. Marjorie B. Zucker, New York University Medical Center presented five Investigator Recognition Awards: Barry S. Coller, State University of New York at Stony Brook Medical School; Barbara C. Furie, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston; Jack Lawler, St. Elizabeth's Hospital of Boston; Alan T. Nurden, Hôspital Lariboisiere, Paris, France; and Edward F. Plow, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, LaJoIla, Calif. The Council of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom announced the appointment of three research professors October 21. Robert Michell joined Birmingham University’s biochemistry department October 1, 1987; Andrew Wiles, professor of mathematics at Princeton University, will join Oxford University’s Mathematical Institute September 1, 1988; and Robert M. May, professor of zoology and chairman of the University Research Board at Princeton, will join Oxford’s zoology department October 1, 1988. John Cocke, IBM fellow at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and inventor of Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) technology, received the 1987 Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award October 29. ACM honored Cocke with its highest award for technical contributions in computing for his contributions to the development of RISC computers, the design and theory of compilers and the architecture of large systems. The Society of American Foresters presented five awards for outstanding contributions to forestry at its national convention in Minneapolis last month. William D. Hagenstein of Portland, Ore., former executive vice president of the Industrial Forestry Association, received the Gifford Pinchot Medal; Jerry F. Franklin, chief plant ecologist and project leader at the USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, Ore., was awarded the Barrington Moore Memorial Award; John C. Barber of Warsaw, Va., former SAF executive vice president, received the John A. Beale Memorial Award; Stephen A. Hobbs, leader of the Coastal Oregon Productivity Enhancement Program and associate professor of forestry at Oregon State University, Corvallis, was awarded the Technology Transfer and Extension Award; and Timothy M. Cooney, trust officer, First Wachovia Investment Management Group, Atlanta, Ga., received the Young Forester Leadership Award. The Acoustical Society of America presented several awards November 18 in Miami the Distin- guished Service Citation to Frederick E. White, associate editor of References to Contemporary Papers on Acoustics; the ASA Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics to Eberhard Zwicker, Institute for Electroacoustics at the Technical University of Munich; the ASA Silver Medal in Speech Communication to Dennis H. Watt, MIT and the ASA Trent-Crede Award to Miguel C. Junger, Cambridge Acoustical Associates, Inc., Mass.

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