Lucrative Guggenheim Fellowships Go To Eight Exuberant Harvard Faculty

Eight Harvard professors have won Guggenheim Fellowships for 1973, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced last Friday.

The eight recipients of the awards are: Winslow R. Briggs, professor of Biology; Michael M. Fried, associate professor of Fine Arts; James M. Jones, assistant professor of Social Psychology; Stephen M. Krane, professor of Medicine; Robert Rosenthal, professor of Social Psychology; William Silen, professor of Surgery; David H. Smith, associate professor of Pediatrics; and Harrison C. White, professor of Sociology.

The fellowships are awarded on the basis of "demonstrated accomplishment in the past and strong promise for the future," according to the Guggenheim Foundation. The awards allow each recipient to devote an entire, continuous year to a project in his particular field, away from any distractions which might otherwise impair his study.

Harvard's eight scholarships place the University ninth among institutions which won the fellowships. Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley tied for the most awards with 16 each.

"I'm very excited," White said yesterday. "I really need time to work by myself--thank God for Guggenheims that let one get away to do fundamental work without endless interruptions," he exclaimed.