A Conclave of Noted Scientists

NEARLY 100 of the nation's foremost scientists gathered in Hanover last month when the College for three days hosted the annual fall meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. Prof. Walter H. Stockmayer, an Academy member, was the local program chairman. Three public symposia dealt with chemical and biological warfare, manned vs. unmanned space exploration, and new discoveries about water. Thirty papers were given at other sessions.

Invited to give the traditional public address on science and society, U.S. Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre '37 dramatically departed from his announced topic to call for an immediate disengagement from Vietnam. Dr. William D. McElroy, recently named head of the National Science Foundation, gave the dinner address and urged his fellow Academy members to accept "social responsibility" for the technological advances of science.

A symposium of the National Academy of Sciences in Spaulding Auditorium

Dr. Philip Handler, the Academy president,is Professor of Biochemistry at Duke.

William D. McElroy, Director of the National Science Foundation, with Mrs. Handler at the Academy dinner.

Two views of space flight were given by William Pickering (I), directorof Cal Tech's Jet Propulsion Lab, and Astronaut Frank Borman.

Prof. Walter Stockmayer (I), local program chair-man, and Dr. Lars Onsager of Yale, Nobel Prizewinner in chemistry, were in a symposium on water.

Anthony Turkevich '37 of the Fermi Institute,University of Chicago, was a member of a paneldealing with unmanned space exploration.

Matthew Meselson of Harvard (I), consultant to the U.S.Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Ivan Bennettof N.Y.U., former Deputy Director of the Office of Scienceand Technology, discussed chemical-biological warfare.

John Findlay of the National Radio AstronomyObservatory in Charlottesville, Va., also represented the unmanned side of space probes.