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Nobel Prize Winner Appointed
To Advanced Studies Center

A Nobel Prize winning biochemist, a
noted biologist and an industrial research
physicist are new members of the
advisory board of the University's Center
for Advanced Studies.

Newest members of the board of
nationally and internationally distinguished
scholars and specialists are
Konrad E. Bloch, professor of biochemistry
at Harvard University and 1964 Nobel
Prize winner in physiology and medicine;
Samuel Nabrit, distinguished biologist,
former president of Texas Southern
University and now executive director of
the Southern Fellowships Fund, and
Herbert C. Pollock, manager of technologies
and support program for General
Electric Co. in Schenectady, N.Y.

The board serves in an advisory
capacity to University President Edgar F.
Shannon Jr. and other top University
administrators in development of various
academic and scientific departments and areas
of the University. The Center, to which some
40 outstanding scholars have been elected for
teaching and research chair during the past five
years, was established under a $3.78 million
"center of excellence" grant made by the
National Science Foundation (NSF).

expanding to include the humanities and social

Mr. Bloch received the Nobel Prize for his
discoveries concerning the mechanism and
regulation of cholesterol and fatty acid
metabolism. Mr. Nabrit, a former member of
the Atomic Energy Commission, is a noted
biologist and educator whose published articles
have dealt with educational problems of
Negroes, human ecology and marine life. Mr.
Pollock, a graduate of the University of Virginia
and a Rhodes Scholar, was instrumental in
developing the electron synchrotron which has
led to other high energy accelerators.

Already serving on the board are Owen R.
Cheatham, chairman of the executive committee
of Georgia-Pacific Corp.; Morris Cohen,
professor of materials science and engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rowland
Egger, professor of government and
foreign affairs, Princeton University; Milton
Friedman, professor of economics, University
of Chicago; Thomas H. Hunter, vice president
for medical affairs at the University; Oron J.
Hale, professor of history, University of
Virginia; Frank L. Hereford Jr., vice president
and provost at the University.

Also, J.H. Tyler .McConnell, president,
Delaware Trust Co.; Gordon N. Ray, president,
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation;
Edward L. Tatum, professor of biology,
Rockefeller University, and Merle A. Tuve,
senior research fellow, Carnegie Institution.