Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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CANCER RESEARCHER J. Walter Wilson has been associated with Brown ever since his frech. man year in 1914, Since his nemination as Frank L Day Professor of Biology in 1944, he served ac Department chairman. n addition to being active in the LS Public Health Service, he was named by the U.S. Surgeon General fo the National Coun. cil on Health Research Facilities in 1956 and fo the National Advisory Cancer Council in 1960, He is largely responsible for the national reputation which the Biology Department enjove, Dr. Herman B. Chase, a recognized authority on the effects of radiation on living tissue, was named Robert P. Brown Professor of Bioloay in 1960, A member of the American Society of Zoologists, the Seclety for the Study of Development and Growth the Society for the Study of Evolution, the American Association for the advancement of Science and the Radiation Research Society, he has conducted extensive resesrch in radiation biology both in thic country and abroad.

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THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES are not restricted by any means, and Harold Schlossberg, Edgar J. Marston Professor of Psychol- oqy, is one of Brown's many experimental psychologists who have kept this mind science in the good graces of the older science. Dr. Schlossberg, who is also chairman of the Department, is infer- nationally known for his pioneer work in the conditioned reflex, his research on visual perception, and in the facial expression of emotions. In 1938 he and R S Woodworth published Experi- mental Peychology which s ' the Bible fo studenis in fhe field. Presently on the editorial boards of two reviews of psychol- ogy, Dr. Schlossberg has held high positions in several of the many learned organizations to which he belongs. Last summer he received a grant to study psychological laboratories in Russia. Working in the more acceptable' areas of biology, Dr. William Montagna, L. Herbert Ballou Professor, was cited as 'one of the leading anatomists in America' in 1960 by his alma mater Bethany College. His world-wide recognition derives from his research of problems in the biology of skin. He is known locelly by ol pre- meds for his Comp Anat' course and his work with apes and various related animals. Author of two major books and innumer able papers and editor of several more, he holds memberships in over fen important scientific organizations. and societies. He received the 1957 Award of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists for the most outstanding contribution in skin biclogy and the Gold Award of the American Academy of Dermatology and Siphilology.

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OVER THIRTY YEARS a member of the Brown Facully, George Lyle Church, pro fessor of botany, is chairman of the de- partment of botany and curator of the Herbarium. The Stephen 1. Olney professer of natural history, he is a specialist in plent evolution. Besides being a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sclence and o member of the Scciety for the Study of Evolution and the American Society of Naturalists among other such so- cieties, he has confinued his research on olant hybridization, patferns of evoluiion, and origins of new species in seed plants. Otto E. Neugebauer, professor of the his tory of mathematics and Florence Pirce Grant University Professor at Brown, heads a department that is unique in the world for its study of original sources for the history of mathematics and astronomy in antiquity and the Middle Ages. A scholar of inter netional repute, Professor Neucgebauer is an authority of Egyptien and Babylonian math- ematics. He has been credited with chang ing the aspect of the roots of science in antiquity. After receiving a Ph.D. in 1926 from the University of Gottingen, Germany, he taught there and at the University of Copenhagen before coming fo Brown in 1939. Since 1954, he has been associated with the Instifute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His book, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity 1951, received the Heineman Prize: and the American Philosophical So- ciety's John F. Lewis Prize was awarded him for another book during the same year,