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AT the annual meeting of tho National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Frank B. Jewett, president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was elected president for a term of four years, to succeed Dr. Frank R. Lillie, emeritus professor of zoology of the University of Chicago, who will retire on June 30. The following were elected members of the Academy: Gregory Breit, professor of physics, University of Wisconsin; Detlev Wulf Bronk, Johnson professor of biophysics and director of the Johnson Foundation, University of Pennsylvania; William Bosworth Castle, associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston City Hospital; Frederick Gardner Cottrell, president, Research Associates, Incorporated, Washington, D.C., consulting chemist, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils; Frederick Parker Gay, professor of pathology and bacteriology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; Albert Baird Hastings, Hamilton Kuhn professor of biochemistry, Harvard University; Vladimir Nikolaevich Ipatieff, research director of the Universal Oil Products Company, professor of chemistry, Northwestern University; Merkel Henry Jacobs, professor of general physiology, University of Pennsylvania; Zay Jeffries, General Electric Company, Cleveland, Ohio; Donald Forsha Jones, geneticist, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven; George Bogdan Kistiakowsky, professor of chemistry, Harvard University; Warren Judson Mead, professor and head of the department of geology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Oscar Riddle, investigator, department of genetics, Station for Experimental Evolution, Carnegie Institution, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.; Adolph Hans Schultz, associate professor of physical anthropology, School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins University; Philip Edward Smith, professor of anatomy, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
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U.S. National Academy of Sciences: Elections. Nature 143, 888 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143888a0
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