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Like their colleagues, four of the new additions are top-rank men of science: Caltech's Physics Professor R. F. Bacher, Harvard's Nobel Prizewinning Physicist E. M. Purcell, University of California's Livermore Laboratory Director Herbert York, Harvard Chemistry Professor George B. Kistiakowsky. The fifth new...
Nobel prize-winner Edward M. Purcell and Russian-born chemist George B. Kistiakowsky were added to the committee which is now directly responsible to the President on "problems of national policy involving science and technology."
Both Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, and Purcell, professor of Physics, said last night that they had received little specific information on what the activities of the expanded committee would be.
Purcell emphasized that he felt the basic problem in scientific education lies in secondary school instruction. He said that he did not advocate increasing the number of science concentrators in the College.
Both Purcell and Kistiakowsky have been associated with missile development. Kistiakowsky has served on the von Neumann Committee since it was formed in 1953, and Purcell has served since 1947 as a scientific adviser to the Air Force.