Professors Appointed

Edward M. Purcell was appointed this week as the first Donner Professor of Science at Harvard. Currently serving on President Eisenhower's Scientific Advisory Committee, Purcell received the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work in nuclear magnetism.

Stephen Marshall Cohen, this year's Lowell Lecturer in Boston, was appointed to an assistant professorship in Philosophy, and John Charles Nelson, an instructor in Italian here since 1957, has been made an assistant professor.