Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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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,

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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 DIRECTOR cf fhe imposing new BM 7070 is Dr. William Prager, one of the fore- most authorities in the fie ds of applied math- ematics and mechonics. e s the former chairman of the Physical Sciences Councll, having gotten awards for his work which has vitally influenced many pheses of engineering. He is a linquist of note and his six orinciple books have been translated into many lan- guages. Dr. Prager, a Herbert Ballou Uni versity Professor, has been instrumental in bringing the graduate divisicn of applied mathematics to a position of recognized lead- ership. Dr. Robert Bruce lindsay, Hazard Professor of Physics since 1936, maintains not only an active position at Brown as Dean of the Graduate School and advisor for inde pendent studies in physics, but also an infer national reputation as a theoretical physicist having published widely in such specializea fields as ultrasonics, mechanical radiation, and motion. His numerous books and articles in- cluding one in the 1957 Encyclopedia Britan- nica on sound, and his service as vice-presi- dent of the American Academy of Arts and ociences and as a8 member of the governing board of the American Institute of Physics makes Dr. Lindsay one of Brown's most illus- trious faculty members,