Evening star., 1948-09-26
Five Young Scientists
And Mathematicians
Receive FeIIowships

Five young scientists and math-
ematicians living in Washington
have been granted research fellow
ships to continue their work at
universities by the Atomic Energy
Commission. OF the recipients four
are colored persons, three Of whom
have been engaged in an atomic Ell
ergy research project at Howard
University.
The five awards permitting the re-
cipients to pursue their work for
the doctors degree are among 1852
announced by the commission yes
terday. The new list brings to 206
the number OF graduate students
selected for training under the
EC-financed fellowship program
during the current academic year.
Washington recipients are:
Miss Evelyn Boyd, 1886 Ontario
road N. w.
George A. Ferguson, jr., 5120 Just
street N. E.
George William Sherard. Howard
University physics instructor.
Walter Dexter Whitehead, i, jr.
who has been associated with the
Carnegie Institutions Department
Of Terrestrial Magnetism.
Edgar Samuel Williams, 2700
Georgia avenue NV.
Miss Boyd is the daughter OF
Mrs. Julia w. Boyd of the Ontario
road address and 1941 graduate
of Dunbar High School. She was
graduated with high honors by
Smith College and took her MA.
degree at Yale in 1916. Her fellow
snip is for the sturdy of mathema-
tics at Yale.
Mr.. Ferguson is the son of George
A. Ferguson of 2433 M street NV.
He is a graduate of Armstrong High
School. He received the BIS. de-
gree with hofaors at Howard and his
MS. degree from the same univer-
sity. He is married. During the war
he served with the Army combat
engineers.
His fellowship is for study of
physics at the University of Pennsyl-
vania.
Mr.. Sherard has lived at 1915
Tenth street NV. while teaching
at Howard. His home is at Dayton,
Ohio, and he holds the degrees of
B.A. and MS. from the University
of Cincinnati. He will study atomic
nuclear physics at the University OF
Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Whitehead has been doing
research work on high voltages at
the Carnegie Institutes Department
of Terrestrial Magnetism, 524l Broad
Branch road NV. His home is at
Old Church, Va, and he is grad
uate of the University of Virginia
with the degrees of BIS. and MS.
At the University Of Virginia, he
will sturdy the scattering OF alpha
particles.
Mr.. Williams is the son Of Mr..
and Mrs. James w. Williams. His
father, once a teacher, is retired
War Department employe and his
mother is a member OF the District
Board of Education.
A graduate OF Dunbar High
School, he entered Howard at IA
and was graduated with honors.
He took his M. S. degree at the
University of Chicago. Mr.. Will
liams was an instructor in physics
at Howard last year and is now 81.
He will study for the doctors degree
in mathematics at the University OF
Chicago.
He is an Air Force veteran.
The Atomic Energy Commissions S
fellowship program is administered
by the commission and the Nation
al Research Council of the Nation
al Academy of Sciences. 1t is car
ried on under provisions OF the
Atomic Energy Act of 1916.
The purpose is to insure the ex-
pansion of research in atomic ener-
gy and related fields, to overcome
the shortage of trained scientists
and technicians and to promote a
growing fund OF theoretical and
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