Two Harvard Scientists Receive National Medal

President Johnson last week named two Harvard professors as winners of the 1964 National Medal of Science.

Julian S. Schwinger, Professor of Physics, and Robert B. Woodward, Donner Professor of Science, will be among eleven prominent scientists to receive medals in a White House ceremony early next year.

The President annually presents the medals to those who, in his judgment, "are deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences."

Schwinger, who teaches Physics 253, "Advanced Quantum Mechanics," is a researcher in fundamental problems of particle physics.

Woodward has been working at the University for 27 years and has developed a new approach to the synthesis of such natural substances as cholesterol, cortisone and chlorophyll. He presently gives no formal courses, but holds occasional seminars.

Roger Adams '09, an organic chemist and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, will also receive a medal.

Other medal winners this year include a leader in experimental population genetics study, a bridge designer, a developer of aeronautic and astronautic instruments, a 1934 Nobel Prize winner who pioneered studies of the earth and solar system, and researchers in mathematics, psychology, and the chemical processes of the genetic code.