Alexander Hamilton Award

NOBEL Laureates Polykarp Kusch, Willis Lamb, I. I. Rabi, John H. Northrop, and Harold C. Urey were among the recipients of the 1961 Alexander Hamilton Awards presented by the Association of the Alumni of Columbia College at a dinner held April 11 on the Columbia campus. The awards are conferred annually upon Columbia alumni or past or present faculty members “for distinguished service in any field of human endeavor”. Dr. Kusch, chairman of the Physics Department at Columbia, and Dr. Lamb, a member of the University’s Physics Department from 1938–52, who has most recently served as visiting professor of physics at Columbia on leave from Oxford University, shared the 1955 Nobel Prize for physics. Prof. Rabi, who has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 1929, has recently become president of Associated Universities, Inc., a corporation of universities, including Columbia, which manages the Brookhaven National Laboratory for the AEC. Dr. Northrop is emeritus professor of bacteriology and biophysics of the University of California at Berkeley and has received two previous awards from Columbia, the Stevens Prize and the Chandler Medal. Dr. Urey, professor of chemistry at large of the University of California, served with the Columbia chemistry department from 1929 to 1945.