1V~SHINGTON (UP&President
Ford presented the highest US.
scientific award Thursday to 13 men,
including Dr. Linus Pauling, a two-
time Nobel Prize winning chemist
whose criticism of U.S. foreign and
nuclear policy kept him from getting
the same honor twice during the Nix-
on administration.'

Mr. Ford, presenting the National
Medals of Science in a brief noontime
ceremony in the White House East
Room, told about 200 guests that "we
owe a great debt" to the men for
work "that has touched and enriched
the lives of all of us."
Pauling, 74, now a professor at
Stanford University, was the next to
last to receive his medal and, after
shaking hands enthusiastically with
Jlr. Ford, smiled broadly.

for Bell Tclephonc Laboratories, Inc.,
Holmdel, N-J.; Ralph B. Peck, a con-









The awards were based on recom-
sulting foundation engineer in Albu-
querque, N.&l.; James A. Shannon,







mendations by a special 13-member
special adviser to the president of
Rockefeller University in New York
City, and Abel Wolman, a retired ~





advisory group. Paining received
professor of sanitary engineering at





such rtcommendations twice during
Johns Hopkins University in Balti-
more.




Richard hI. Nixon's Presidency, but
the 1Vhjtc House refused to give him
the a\~:ard.

Pauling was one of nine pl'oicssors
honored Thursday. The others were
physicist Nicolaas Bloembcrgcn of
Harvard University; biophysicist
Britton Chance of the University of
Pennsylvania: biochemist Erwin
Chargaff of Columbia University;
chemist Paul J. Flory of Stanford;
physicist William A. Fowler of the
California Institute of Technology;
mathematician Kurt Godel of Prince-
ton University; geneticist James Van
Gundia Neel of the University of
Michigan, and chemist Kenneth S.
Pitzer of the University of Califorqia
at Berkeley.

Pauhng won the Nobel Prize for
chcmistrv in 1954 for his discovery of
the "chemical bond" of force that
hnlfl-: ,no!ecules together. He won the
TX'   l+acc Prize in 1962. Hc also
1, L a "Presidential Medal of Merit"
]:`I 1!?1!3 for his work on explosives
and other projects during World War
II. IIc rece:ved the Soviet Union's Le-
nin Peace Prize in 197D.

During the McCarthy era, hc was
accused of being a Communist sym-
pathizer and, over the Jears, he be-
came a prominent critic of U.S.
foreign policy-particulxly during
the Vietnam war.

The four other winners were RU-
.dolf Kompfner, director of research

SC once unsuccessfully sued the
Defense Department and the Atomic
Energy Commission to try to halt nu-
clear testing. Because of his actions,
the State Department even refused to
issue him a passport in 1952 and 19.53
-relenting only after he won the
Nobel Prize a year later.

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