Description

Black and white photograph of George Wells Beadle, Robert Burns Woodward, Paul Abraham Freund, James Dewey Watson, Leon Howard, Paul A. Samuelson, Donald Olding Herns, and Roman Jakobson are seen posed for a group portrait dressed in academic robes.

Original Caption: "On May 4th, 1961 at the Inauguration of George Wells Beadle as Chancellor of The University of Chicago in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, honorary doctor's degrees were conferred upon: (from left to right) Robert Burns Woodward, Donner Professor of Science, Harvard University; Paul Abraham Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard University; James Dewey Watson, Professor of Biology, Harvard University; (George Wells Beadle, Chancellor, The University of Chicago); Leon Howard, Professor of English, University of California at Los Angeles; Paul A. Samuelson, Professor Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Tech.; Donald Olding Herns, Professor of Psychology, McGill University; Roman Jakobson, Samuel Howard Cross Professor of Slavonic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, and Institute Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."