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DR. WILLIAM J. ROBBINS, chairman of the National Science Fund of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences, has announced the creation of two 2,000 dollars prizes to be known as the Charles L. Mayer Awards and to be presented in 1942 and 1943 for outstanding contributions to our knowledge of factors affecting the growth of animal cells with particular reference to human cancer. The awards are to be. not only in recognition of past accomplishments but are also designed to increase the opportunities of those with exceptional abilities to carry on further research. To assist the National Science Fund in effective administration of the Mayer Awards, a special advisory committee has been appointed consisting of Dr. R. R. Williams, chemical director of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Dr. Alan Gregg, director for the Medical Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. George H. Whipple, dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Rochester, and Dr. Elihu Root, jun., as the lay member. The donor of the Charles L. Mayer Awards, Dr.'Robins said, had in mind the vast possibilities offered by research on the action of chemical agents and physical factors in stimulating or retarding cell growth, and the National Science Fund would consider studies of factors controlling the growth of protozoa, of animal tissue cultures or of entire organisms as eligible.
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Charles L. Mayer Awards for Animal Cell Growth Research. Nature 151, 19 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151019a0
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