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CURRICULUM VITAE OF DR. EDWIN BIDWIIS. WILSON Dr. Edwin Bidwell Wilson, Professor of Vital Statistics Emeritus at Harvard University, and one of the aorld's outstanding scientists and experts in the field of vital statistics, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on April 25, 1879. A graduate of Harvard University, Dr. Wilson received his Ph.D. at Yale University and also attended L'Ecole Normale Superieur, The Sorbonne and the College de France. In 1955, Wesleyan University (Middletovn, Connecticut) conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. Dr. Wilson is a former President (1927-31) of the American Acade=y of Arts and Sciences and also (1929) of the American Statistical Association.. After receiving his degrees, Dr. Wilson taught successively at Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard. He was Professor of Vital Statistics at Harvard from 1922 until 1945,.vhen he became Professor Emeritus. He was Vice President of the National AcadeaLy of Sciences for the term 1949-53 and has been the Managing Editor of its proceedings since 1915. Dr. Wilson was President of the Social Science Research Council from 1929-31, and from 1937 to 1942 he was Chairman of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. He has been a long-time member of the Advisory Board and of the Committee of Selection for the United States and Csnada of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and he was a member of the Science Coaittee of the National Resources Pis :ning Board, 1935-43. He was Stevenson Lecturer on citizensh=p at Glasgow, Scotland, in 1945-46. Since 1948 he has been a Consultant at the Office of Naval Research in Boston. Dr. Wilson is an honorary 1'.fe member of the Board of Directors of the Americaa Cancer Society. ~ = EXHIBIT ~ ~lSl~ >S< <~u) 121561 65100 "=-t' C TR 1`11 N 0 11 '22 4 , s