President's Committee on the National Medal of Science Appointment of Eight Members.

The President today announced the appointment of eight persons as members of the President's Committee on the National Medal of Science. They are:

RICHARD ATKINSON, chancellor of the University of California at San Diego and former director of the National Science Foundation;

DAVID BALTIMORE, American Cancer Society professor of microbiology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine;

HERBERT BROWN, professor emeritus at Purdue University, winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry and the National Medal of Science;

ROGER GUILLEMIN, a resident fellow at the Salk Institute and adjunct professor of medicine at the University of California at San Diego and a National Medal of Science winner;

MARY JANE OSBORN, professor of microbiology at the University of Connecticut Health Center and a member of the National Science Board;

SIDNEY TOPOL, president and chairman of the board of Science-Atlanta, Inc., an electronics firm;

STEVEN WEINBERG, professor of physics at the University of Texas and a Nobel Prize winner (reappointment);

CHIEN-SHIUNG WU, professor of physics at Columbia University and a National Medal of Science winner.