Science Group Elects 5 Harvard Professors

Five Harvard professors have been elected new members of the National Academy of Sciences.

The five--Marland P. Billings '23, professor of Geology, Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, David Turnbull, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, and Kenneth J. Arrow, who will join the Faculty as professor of Economics next fall--were among 50 new members elected to the Academy on Saturday. They will be members for life.

One of the new members said yesterday that the Academy, which was founded during the Civil War to provide scientific advice to the federal government, is now "largely honorific."