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

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

W. DALE COMPTON, of Birmingham, Mich., director of chemical and physical sciences, executive director of the science research staff, and vice president of research for the Ford Motor Co.;

CARL DJERASSI, professor of chemistry at Stanford University;

MARY LOWE GOOD, the Boyd professor of chemistry at the University of New Orleans;

LEON M. LEDERMAN, the Eugene Higgins professor of physics at Columbia University;

GALVIN G. MOORE, dean of physical sciences at the University of California at Berkeley;

DOROTHY M. SIMON, of Greenwich, Conn., vice president and director of research for AVCO Corp.;

JOHN B. SLAUGHTER, Of Chevy Chase, Md., Assistant Director for Astronomical, Atmospheric, Earth and Ocean Sciences at the National Science Foundation;

STEVEN WEINBERG, Higgins professor of physics at Harvard University;

JOHN R. WHINNERY, professor of electrical engineering and former dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley.