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THE American Telephone and Telegraph Co. has awarded the Frank B. Jewett Fellowships for 1949–50 to the followkig : Dr. Harish-Chandra, a graduate in mathematics and theoretical physics of the Universitvof Allahabad, the Indian Institute of Science in Banggflore and the University of Cambridge, who has done considerable research on the theory of elementary particles and is at present working on the theory of Lie algebras at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton ; Dr. James A. Jenkins, a graduate, in mathematics and physics of the University of Toronto and Harvard University, who is engaged in research relating to topological mapping problems at Harvard University ; Dr. Robert Karplus, a graduate in chemical physics of Harvard University, who is engaged in nuclear research at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton ; Dr. Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger, a graduate in physics of Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has been studying at the Physikalisches Institut, Zurich, and will continue his research there on the theory of the superconductive state ; Dr. David Emerson Mann, a graduate in physics and chemistry of the City College of New York and of the University of Chicago, who is engaged in research in quantum mechanics at the University of Minnesota ; Dr. Harvey Winston, a graduate in chemistry of Columbia College, who will undertake research in crystallography. These fellowships are designed to stimulate and assist postdoctorate research in the fundamental physical sciences and are awarded on the recommendation of a committee of seven from the Bell Telephone Laboratories. The awards carry a grant of 3,000 dollars to the recipient and 1,500 dollars to the institution at which the research is done.
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Frank B. Jewett Fellowships : New Awards. Nature 163, 674 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163674b0
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