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, receiving his M.D. in 1947. He interned at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, and did residency work there and at Yale's department of psychiatry. He did military service as a psychiatrist at Brooke Army Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, and began his research career at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Medical Research in Washington, D.C. Hamburg returned to Michael Reese Hospital in 1953. In 1958 he joined the National Institute of Mental Health as chief of the Adult Psychiatry Branch, and in 1961 he was called to the chair of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he remained for almost 15 years. He had become familiar with Stanford from a tour at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences in 1957-1958, a cycle which he repeated a decade later. During this period he established himself as an investigator of biobehavioral process, his work ranging from the endocrine effects of stress in the human to the biosocial roots of aggression studied in higher primates in their natural habitat. The breadth of his perspectives is signaled by his research focus in psychoendocrinology at the same time that he was a candidate and then a graduate in the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. At Stanford he established a new department of psychiatry, distinguished for its breadth of research in the biology of mental illness, and was a founding participant in many all-university programs, such as the curriculum in human biology. During the same interval he founded and cochaired a program in science, technology, and society at the Center for Ad-