SCIENCE BOARD HONORS HARVARD PROFESSOR
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Date: Friday, May 5, 1995
Page: 28
Section: METRO
Nobel laureate and former government scientific adviser Norman Ramsey,
Harvard University's Higgins professor emeritus of physics, has been selected
to receive the Vannevar Bush Award from the National Science Board, the board
announced yesterday.
Ramsey won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1989 for his work on atomic
oscillations, which led to the development of ultraprecise atomic clocks.
He was a founder of Brookhaven National Laboratory and served as a
consultant to the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during
World War II. He also served as the first science adviser to NATO and was a
member of the Atomic Energy Commission's general advisory committee.
More recently, he chaired a government panel to investigate claims of
''cold fusion" in 1989 and another panel that discredited claims that a
policeman's tape recording from Dallas showed evidence of a second gunman in
the Kennedy assassination.
The prize will be awarded to Ramsey Wednesday at a dinner to be held at the
US State Department.
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