End-of-Season Honors

Every winter U. S. science formally acclaims outstanding work in the halls of learning and the laboratories of industry. Honors awarded since the midwinter crescendo of salutes (TIME, Feb. 10) included the following:

Clinton Hoadley Crane, 63, naval architect, mining engineer, president of Missouri's St. Joseph Lead Co. (largest U. S. lead producer); the William Lawrence Saunders medal, top award of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers. Born to well-to-do parents in New Jersey, Clinton Crane was first captivated by sailing, designed small boats and yachts, won the Seawanhaka cup four times, built the motorboat Dixie in which he made a world speed record. After studying naval architecture in Glasgow, he designed U. S. warboats for Philadelphia's William Cramp & Sons. Because St. Joseph Lead Co., in which his family had a fat block of stock, had exhausted the best of its ores, Crane at 40 reluctantly abandoned the sea, plunged into a study of mining methods in the U. S. and South America, invented an underground shovel, became head of the company, worked low-grade lead ores at a profit, using one-third the former man power. At 56 he found time to design the America's Cup yacht Weetamoe. The same year he got a D.Sc. degree from Colorado School of Mines. Now white-haired, straight as a ramrod, he still designs boats for his friends, says: "If I had time I might try something entirely different. There's nothing so stimulating as a new career."

Dr. John Campbell Merriam, 66, geologist, paleontologist, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; the American Institute's gold medal; for discoveries in paleontology, promotion of research, recognition of the place of science in human affairs. Dr. Merriam's broad surveys of fossils and artifacts convince him that man in the U. S. is at least 100,000 years old. Dr. William Francis Giauque, 40, of the University of California, holder of the U. S. record for low temperature (.16DEG C. above Absolute Zero), discoverer of two variant forms of oxygen weighing 17 and 18 atomic units instead of the ordinary 16; the Chandler medal of Columbia University.

Dr. Marston Taylor Bogert, 68, first professor of organic chemistry at Columbia University (since 1904), ardent pacifist, tireless lecturer, author of 300 chemical papers of which 64 concern the quinazolines and thiazoles (synthetic aromatics) ; the annual medal of the American Institute of Chemists.

Dr. Frank Baldwin Jewett, 56, vice president in charge of research of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and Charles Franklin Kettering, 59, vice president in charge of research of General Motors Corp.; the Franklin medal of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, awarded annually for salient achievements in phys ical science or technology, "without regard to country," from a fund established in 1914 by Utilitarian Samuel Insull.

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