Lawrence Awards

The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Awards for 1963, given by the Atomic Energy Commission for recent meritorious contributions in the field of atomic energy, were presented to five scientists at a ceremony held on April 25 at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, D.C. Those receiving the $5000 awards were Herbert J. C. Kouts of Brookhaven National Laboratory “for the development of new experimental techniques in reactor physics and their application to a better understanding of theoretical models of chain‐reacting systems”, L. James Rainwater of Columbia University “for contributions to nuclear physics including the experimental determination of many important neutron cross‐sections and our understanding of complex nuclei”, Louis Rosen of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory “for the development of new experimental techniques and their application to a better understanding of the nucleus as well as to the diagnosis of weapon behavior”, James M. Taub, also of Los Alamos, “for contributions to the metallurgy of uranium and other special nuclear materials including the development of ingenious methods for fabricating materials into special shapes with tight dimensional tolerances”, and Cornelius A. Tobias of the University of California at Berkeley “for contributions to the understanding of basic radiobiology of cells including his studies of the biological effects of heavy high‐energy particles”.