War Service Awards Given to 14 Professors

Fourteen Harvard professor received recognition for their war services in a joint Army-Navy ceremony yesterday at New Lecture Hall. They were among the 86 Greater Boston men who were honored with the Certificate of Merit from the Defense Department. Varied fields of work, ranging from medical research to economics were represented among the men who received the honors.

All the men were wartime members of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and their work was done everywhere from Cambridge laboratories to Hawaiian military outposts.

Thanking the scientists for their work, Colonel L. Champeny stated that their work "although seemingly small in scope had played a great part in assuring the success of larger overall projects."

Work in the field of economics included making surveys of Army administration. Typical of the purely scientific research was the work carried on in the Psycho-Acoustical and Radiation Laboratories here at Cambridge.

The awards went to:

Paul D. Bartlett '31, professor of Chemistry; Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Mathematics; Shin Lu Chang, assistant professor of Sanitary Biology; Cocil K. Drinker. professor of Physiology; Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics; James L. Gamble '10, professor of Pediatrics; Harry L. Hansen '37, associate professor of Business Administration; John N. Hobstter, assistant professor of Engineering Science; Roland B. Holt, assistant professor of Physics; Edwin C. Kemble '17, professor of Physics; Eugene M. Landis, George Higgins Professor of Physiology; Harry R. Mimno '28, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics; J. Howard Mueller, Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology; John L. Ondey, associate professor of Physical Chemistry; Robert V. Pound, assistant professor of Physics; Leslie Silverman, assistant professor of Industrial Hygiene.