Academy Honors

The National Academy of Science announced Saturday that four Harvard professors have been elected to membership in the academy.

The elected professors are Alastair G.W. Cameron, professor of Astronomy; Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, Stanfield Professor of International Peace; John E. Dowling '57, professor of Biology; and Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology.

As members of the academy, they will be entitled to participate in the governing of the National Research Council, an advisory council for the government.

All four professors have opted to accept election.