Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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l l l Ii The vertical as well as the horizontal motion of the earth is recorded on the new earthquake detector of Professor Don Leet. With this machine he hopes to be able to predict costal storms by studying the behavior of small ground waves. the Lyman Laboratory, and the space thus vacated was altered to provide suitable quarters for the large number of men work- ing on doctoral dissertations in theoretical physics. New Course Offerings Changes in course offerings were at least as significant as these and other adjustments and improvements of physical resources. The basic course in physiology was reorganized by Dr. Carroll M. Williams, and Professorj. H. Welsh made Analytical chemist james Lingane is co-author along with I. M. Kolthoff, of Pola1'ogr'aplay. - .i Organic chemist Louis Fieser, who developed jellied gasoline for the wartime napalm fire bombs and flame throwers, is famous for his research on chemotherapeutic drugs to stop cancer and malaria. notable modifications in the elementary course in Zoology, a course enrolling between 400 and 500 students and taught in 1947-48 by Professorjeffries Wyman. The experiment under which elementary botany was offered in 1946-47 by seven staff members, with Professor William H. Weston serving as co-ordinator, proved so successful that the plan was continued in 1947-48 under the direction of Professors Mangelsdorf and Wetmore. In keeping with the needs for General Education Henry Bigelow, Agassiz Professor of Zoology, was once Director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. ll l ' .' I 3 i 1'

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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. ,,

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4.l1 Professor Arthur Lamb designed Mallinckrodt Chemical Labora- tories, headed the Government's nitrogen-fixing experiments. He retired in 1948. 2231 I , . at PHILIPPE E. LE CORBEILLER GEORGE W. MACKEY lA'l7lilIl L'l' on Applied l'hysi:'r4 Assrn-iztlr l'1'nfi-ssur of Mitllxi-luiittii-s PAUL C. MANGELSDORF ELMER D. MERRILL A l,IlIlll'SHUl' of Iiolxuly l'rol'i-ssor of l'fol.:Lny, l'lIIlCIllillS l.JlI't'C'l,llI' of thi- liulilulizitl lxlllwblllll on a higher level than that of introductory courses, the De- partment of Biology offered in 1947-48 a well-rounded pro- gram of courses dealing with the Principles of Heredity, Plants and Human Affairs, the Organism and its Environment, and Organic Evolution. The last named was a new course under the supervision of Professor Romer, with lectures by many members of the biological staff. In the Department of Chemistry, Dr. E. L. King gave a new course on Radioactive and Stable Isotopes, and Profes- sor G. B. Kistiakowsky revamped Professor Baxter's course, OTTO OLDENBERG HARRY R. MIMNO l'rofr-ssor of Applied l'llyHier-I l'rofeNsor of Pllysies largely devoted to the teaching of gas analysis, so that it is now a study of advanced laboratory techniques in physical chemistry as an introduction to research. Dr. E. L. Ullman joined the Harvard faculty in the fall of 1946 under a joint appointment in the Department of Geology and Geography and the Department of Regional Planning. This was the hrst time that a geographer was appointed in the United States to teach planning. His courses on Transport Routes and Cities are proving to be very valuable additions to the curriculum. Similarly, Professor Kirk Bryan's new course entitled Land- scape-A Geographic Analysis is well designed to fit the needs of many students. As might well be expected, much William H. Weston, Professor of Cryptogamic Botany, has made several expeditions to the West Indies to investigate plant diseases for the Department of Agriculture. .nx-