Evening star., 1941-09-29
5 Noted Scientists
To Be Honored BY
Chicago u. Today
Conferrine Of Degrees
To CIimox Celebration
Of 50th Anniversary
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Sept. 29.-Thirty- five
of the worlds most distinguished
scientists will receive honorary de-
grees today from the University of
Chicago in climaxing celebration
OF the schools 50th anniversary.
Heretofore, the university has
awarded only 86 honorary degrees III
It's history. This list included two
Presidents of the United States, five
winners of the Nobel Prize, two Su-
preme Court justices, six foreign
ambassadors, one king, one cardinal
and II presidents of universities.
This group included DR.. Marie
Curie, co-discoverer of radium; the
late DR.. Paul Ehrlich. discoverer of
salvarsan for syphilis treatment;
King Gustave Adolph of Sweden,
DR.. Ludwig Hekoten, director of the
National Cancer Institute; Dr.
Frank P. Jewett, president of the
National Academy of Sciences; the
late Presidents William Mckinley
and Theodore Roosevelt; DR.. HUI
Shlh, Chinese Ambassador to the
United States; the late Dr.. Theobald
Smith, discoverer of insect trans
mission of disease, and the late
Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France
The men and women who will re-
ceive degrees as doctors of science
letters and divinity form almost as
an imposing list as the men and
women who have preceded them in
receiving the robes and academic
hoods of the university. Among
them are II eminent biological
scientists, seven physical scientists
and one social scientist. Three Nobel
Prize winners, together with dis
tinguished economists, historians.
physicists. medical researchers, ge-
ologists, biologists and philosophers,
are included in the largest dis
tinguished group ever to be honored
at one academic ceremony.
They are: DR.. Charles E. Allen
of the University of Wisconsin. DR..
Edward c. Armstrong of Princeton
University, DR.. Charles H. Best of
the University of Toronto, co-dis-
coverer of inSulin; Dr.. George D.
Birkhoff of Harvard University, DR..
Robert L. Calhoun of Yale Uni
versity. DR.. Lily B. Campbell of the
University of California, DR.. John
M. Clark of Columbia University
DR.. Reginald A. DAILY of Harvard
University, DR.. Edward A. Doisy of
st. Louis University, Dr.. Ernest w.
Goodpasture of Vanderbilt Uni
versity, DR.. Evarts A. Graham of
Washington University. St. Louis:
DR.. Libbie Hyman of the Museum of
Natural History in New York.
DR.. Herbert S. Jennings of Johns
Hopkins University, DR.. Hans Kelsen
LL. d., formerly professor of po-
litical science at Prague University
Warsaw, Poland; Dr.. Karl S. Lashley
Of Harvard University. DR.. Ernest
o. Lawrence of the University of
California. DR.. Clarence I. Lewis
of Harvard University, DR.. Robert H
LOWE Of the University of Cali
fornia, DR.. Charles H. McIlwain of
Harvard University, Dr. Robert A
Millikan of the California Institute
OF Technology, DR.. Carlos A. Monge
Csc. d., dean and professor of medi-
cine at the University of San Marcos
Lima, Peru; DR.. Charles R. Morey
of Princeton University.
DR.. Linus C. Pauling of the Cali
fornia Institute of Technology, DR.
Thomas M. Rivers, director of the
hospital of the Rockefeller Institute
New York; DR.. Michael 1. Rostovtzefi
of Yale University, DR.. Henry N
Russell, director of the Princeton
University Astronomical Observa-
tory, DR.. Florence B. Seibert of the
Henry Phipps Institute, Phila-
delphia; Dr.. Edgar H. Sturtevant of
Yale University, Dr. Donald D. Van
Slyke of the Rockefeller Institute
DR.. Oswald Veblen of Princeton Uni
verslty, DR.. William l.. Westermann
of Columbia University and DR.. Rob-
ert R. Williams of the Bell Tele-
phone Laboratories, New York, dis
coverer of vitamin B1.