Walter Orr Roberts, President-Elect

Walter E. Massey: president-elect of AAAS.

WA ALTER E. Massey began his academic career as a freshman at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1954, after completing the tenth grade in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He had never heard ofphysics and had never taken a course in chemistry, trigonometry, or advanced algebra. After 2 weeks, he asked his mother to take him home. Fortunately, his mother did not listen to him, and Massey perseve...

Henry Eyring, President-Elect.

"Physical chemistry is everything that is interesting," so replied G. N. Lewis, the distinguished mentor of Henry Eyring at Berkeley, California, when queried about the content of this scientific discipline. If this definition be correct, then one who follows the profession of physical chemistry must be sort of a "pan-scientist," and for this title Henry Eyring is well qualified. It is entirely...

President - Elect ’ s Address

CMA president-elect traverses wildernesses.

David A. Hamburg: President-Elect of AAAS.

David Alan Hamburg is the presidentelect of the AAAS, scheduled to assume office as president at the annual meeting in May 1984. Hardly a newcomer to association affairs, he has been a member of AAAS for many years and was elected to its Board of Directors in August 1980. Hamburg was born on 1 October 1925 in Evansville, Indiana, and attended the University of Indiana and its medical school, re...