Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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I l l l Garrett Birkhoff, a specialist in abstract mathematics, was a wartime consultant on the atom bomb at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. prices. Even so, it was possible to meet fairly satisfactorily the requirements of the situation, both during the years when much space was devoted to military projects and during the period of demobilization that began in 1945. The North Wing of the Biological Laboratories was taken over by the Radio Research Laboratory during the war Robert B. Woodward, Associate Professor of Chemistry, holds 21 molecular model of synthetic protein, which he discovered. He was also the first to develop a synthetic quinine. i ilili Iigt-HS C. GRATON ALBERT HAERTLEIN lllf1'hSUl' ul imolmgy lf'-of!-Spur UQ fix-il 1Qm:im...,.iHg -W l ROGER fWAYNE -HICK MAN LEIGH HOADLEY 'l iv i'I'lvf1'SN1vl'lil-Ztlllltlfly ' li1'l'ilIl'1'l' on Applu-il I me A i,ll'l'4'lIll'4lflil1'Jl'lTl'l'SllIl l.nlmi'zLlol'y ,FREDERICK HUNT CORNELIUS S. HURLBUT, JR 'I rofvssur uf .-Xpplli-sl Physln-s Assam-inte l'l'ofuss4n' of Nlllll'l'llillIIS Illlw-1-lor, lTIlli0I'XVll.il'l Slllllltl I,:xl1, ' FRINNELLHJONES EDWIN c. KEMBLE I f NN'll' 'lf f lll'UllNl FY l'ruft-ssul' of l'l1VNi4's fi,ll'1i.lllllt'2ii, WITH ' R. W, P. KING E. q,S. LARSEN, JR. l'fvff'SHHI' 'Pl IXIIIVHWI l'l'NNi N l'l'nI'm-ssm' of l'n-troi.:i':lplny

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Awrmrrizttu l'1'uf1'reso1' ul' Physiology EDWARD S. CASTLE GEORGE L. CLARKE As:-nmsiitlv I'rul'uusor of Zoology A. SPRAGUE COOLIDGE PRESTON E. CLOUD, EIR. l,:-vetu1'm- on Chemistry Assistant, l'rof1-sr+1u'ofIlonopry ul':L1or of Ilxw-l'f,0bl':Ll,v l':Ll:u'nn!-nlugy WILLIAM KJOHN CROZIER HARRY E. DAVEY, JR. l'rolvss1u' of if-In-ratl Pllysiolopry Assoc. l,l'Ul'f'HHUl'lJfN1LN'1Ll Scif-nee lJ4rt1u:Iu-1l.Ium-, HHH W. T. EDMONDSON RONALD M. FERRY lm:-t111'ul'n11 liloloyry As:-un-into l'rnf1-srmrof Iiiofwhr-nlislry WENDELL H. FURRY RUSSELL GIBSON Assmzimv l'ruf1-ssol' of l'hysil'H Aasnviattiv l'rol', uf l'lcunmnic Geology Physicists rank julian Schwinger's new theory-about the elec- trical and magnetic forces within the atom nuclei along with Einstein's theory of relativity. Air-Conditioning for the Animals InstructhJn.in the naturalsciences necessarny includes many hours in the laboratory as well as in the lecture hall. The pressure upon laboratory facilities inevitably presented very difficult problems, especially in view of the fact that much equipment was worn out during the war and could not im- mediately be replaced because of inadequate supply and high Professor Kirtley Mather is an expert in petroleum geology, a staunch defender of civil liberties. His latest book, Enough and To Spare 119445, takes an optimistic view of the world's resources. i30l

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.4-1 Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry, john Edsall helped develop the technique for plasma protein separation. and later was rehabilitated for occupation by the Department of Biology. New and well-equipped laboratories for plant physiology were provided in this process. The animal rooms were extended, and there is now a total air-conditioned capacity for animals almost equal to that available before the war. The newly organized Department of Bio-chemistry was assigned three floors in the reconditioned North Wing. Similarly, the re-opening of the Gibbs Memorial Lab- oratory relieved an otherwise threatening situation by providing Professor Alden Dawson, Head of the Biology Department, has made an exhaustive study of the pituitary gland, is an eminent cytologist. 'E . . Q Kenneth V. Thimann, Director of the Biological Laboratories, has a detailed knowledge of plant physiology. research space sufficient to accommodate some twenty gradu- ate students in chemistry. The Berman Memorial Laboratory in the Mineralogical Museum, equipped as a result of gifts from friends of the late Professor Harry Berman, was opened in November, 1946, and is the finest laboratory in the country for X-ray studies of minerals. The completion of the new Computation Laboratory, about which more will be said later, permitted the removal of Professor Aiken's Automatic Se- quence Controlled Calculating Machine from the basement of Frederick L. Hisaw, expert in the chemistry of reproduction, discovered the new hormone relaxin, a possible aid to childbirth. ,,