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Twenty-seven-year old Hugh G. Voorhies, Jr. '42 will come from his Sau Diego home back to the scene of undergraduate academic triumphs (a magna in Engineering Sciences) as the recipient of the Sheel Oil Fellowship for advanced study in physics, the University announced yesterday.

Voorhies, who during the war, was a research worker at the M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory and worked at Los Alames with the Manhattan project, will make cosmic rays his special field of study for the year granted by the Fellowship.

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