E. B. Wilson Receives Chemical Society Prize for Ability

Edgar Bright Wilson, Jr., assistant professor of Chemistry, has received the $1,000 award of the American Chemical Society which is awarded to "a scientist under 31 years of age and of unusual promise."

Dr. Wilson came to Harvard in the fall of 1934 as a Junior Fellow of the Society of Follows. He was appointed an assistant professor at the beginning of the academic year 1936-37. His field is physical chemistry. He received his A.B. from Princeton in 1930 and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1933.