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21Name:  Dr. Edwin O. Reischauer
 Institution:  Harvard University
 Year Elected:  1973
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  303. History Since 1715
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1910
 Death Date:  9/1/90
   
22Name:  Dr. Walter Orr Roberts
 Institution:  Universal Corporation for Atmospheric Research
 Year Elected:  1973
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  101. Astronomy
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1915
 Death Date:  3/12/90
   
23Name:  Dr. Emil L. Smith
 Institution:  University of California, Los Angeles
 Year Elected:  1973
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1911
 Death Date:  May 31, 2009
   
 
Emil L. Smith is Professor of Biological Chemistry Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has served on the faculty of the School of Medicine since 1963. One of the world's leading authorities on the amino acid sequences of proteins and on biochemical evolution, his research has dealt with photosynthesis; chlorophyll; physiology of the visual process; proteolytic enzymes; glycoproteins; cytochrome; histones; and glutamate dehydrogenases. An outstanding leader in biochemical research and a man of broad scientific interests, Dr. Smith earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1937. He subsequently worked as a Guggenheim Fellow at Cambridge and Yale and as a research associate at the Rockefeller Institute (1940-42) and as a biophysicist at E.R. Squibb & Company's Biological Laboratories (1942-46) before joining the faculty of the University of Utah (1946-63). From 1959-62 Dr. Smith also served as chairman of the United States National Committee on Biochemistry. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he is the author (with A. White, P. Handler and others) of Principles of Biochemistry, for seven editions (1954-83) one of the leading textbooks in the field.
 
24Name:  Dr. Bengt G.D Strömgren
 Year Elected:  1973
 Class:  1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
 Subdivision:  101. Astronomy
 Residency:  International
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1908
 Death Date:  7/4/87
   
25Name:  Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig
 Year Elected:  1973
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1898
 Death Date:  5/20/86
   
26Name:  Dr. Robert E. Ward
 Institution:  Stanford University
 Year Elected:  1973
 Class:  3. Social Sciences
 Subdivision:  304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1916
 Death Date:  December 7, 2009
   
 
Robert E. Ward is Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California in 1948 and went on to teach political science for many years at the University of Michigan, where he also directed the university's Center for Japanese Studies. Highly regarded both in this country and in Japan, Dr. Ward is the author of works including Village Japan; Political Modernization in Japan and Turkey; Japan's Political System; and A Guide to Japanese Reference and Research Materials in the Field of Political Science. He has also served as a member of the Committee on Problems and Policy of the Social Research Council and has taken the lead in cooperative projects involving Japanese and American scholars in a study of the United States post-war occupation of Japan. He is a former president of the American Political Science Association.
 
27Name:  Prof. John Z. Young
 Year Elected:  1973
 Class:  2. Biological Sciences
 Subdivision:  206. Physiology, Biophysics, and Pharmacology
 Residency:  International
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1907
 Death Date:  7/4/97
   
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