Evening star., 1947-05-01
IDr. Richards 10 Take
Academy Of Science,
Presidency July |

Alfred N. Richards. vice pres
ident in. charge Of medical affairs
of the University Of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, will take over as new
president OF the National Academy
OF Sciences July /.
DR.. Richards was elected to a
four-year term to succeed DR.. Frank
B. Jewett at the same session yes
terday at which other officers were
chosen and 20 new members and
five foreign associates were elected.
Among new members chosen was
Robert F. Bacher, Al, 3611 Kanawha
street NV, one OF the members of
the five-man Atomic Energy Com
mission.
Aided in Creating Bomb.
DR. Bacher, native of Loudon-
vile, Ohio, Is married and the
father of two children. He received
bachelor of science and doctor of
philosophy degrees from the Uni
versity of Michigan and was a ma
tional research fellow in physics at
the California Institute Of Tech
nology.
He was also Alfred Lloyd fellow
at the University of Michigan and
taught at Columbia University and
Cornell University, where he be-
came professor of physics.
Dr. Bacher was associated with
the creation of the atomic bomb at
Los Alamos. N. Mex.
Elected home secretary of the
academy was F. E. Wright, 2134
Wyoming avenue NV, of the Car
negie Institution Of Washington
Members Of the council of the Acad-
emy elected for three-year terms
were w. Albert Noyes, jr., chairman
of the department of chemistry
University of Rochester, Rochester
N. Y, and Donald D. Van Slyke
chief chemist, Hospital of the Rookie
feller Institute for Medical Research
New York City.
Others Elected Members.
Others elected to Academy men,
bership were:
Luis w. Alvarez, University of
California, Berkeley; Paul D. Bart
lett. Harvard University; Jacob
Bjerknes, University of California
at Los Angeles; Francis G. Blake
dean, Yale University School OF
Medicine; r. Alexander Brink. Uni
versity Of Wisconsin; Ralph w
CLANCY, University of California
Berkeley.
Also, Arthur C. Cope, Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology: Far
rington Daniels, University of Wis
consin: Arnold Gesell, Yale Univer-
sity School of Medicine; James Gill;
luly, University of California at Los
Angeles; r. B. Goldschmidt, Uni
versity of California, Berkeley;
Samuel A. Goudsmit, Northwestern
University.
Also, c. H. Herty, jr., Bethlehem
Steel Co.; Frederick L. Hisaw, Har-
ward University; Wolfgang Kohler
SWarthmore, Pa; L. G. Longsworth
Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research; Edwin M. Mcmillan, Uni
versity of California, at Berkeley:
Walter J. Meek, University of Wis
consin; J. L. Onchley, Harvard Uni
versity Medical School; Lars On
sager, Yale University: John L
Peters, Yale University.
Also, Paul A. Smith, Columbia
University; C. Richard Soderberg
Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology; Paul Weiss, University Of
Chicago; F. w. Went, California In
stitute of Technology; Robert E
Wilson, chairman of the Board oi
Directors, Standard Oil Co. of In
diana: E. Bright Wilson, jr, Har-
ward University.
Foreign associates elected were
P. A. Alexandroff, University ot
Moscow; K. Linderstrom- Lara
Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen
Denmark; j. N. Bronsted, Institute
for Physical Chemistry, Copenhagen
Denmark: Bjorn Holland Hansen
Geophys1cal Institute, Bergen, Nor
way. and Frederic Charles Bartlett
Psychological Laboratory of Cam
bridge, England.