ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
Dr. Bruner Appointed to AEC.—
Dr. Harry D. Bruner has been appointed chief of the medical branch of the division of biology and medicine, Atomic Energy Commission, succeeding Dr. Roy E. Albert, who has accepted a research and academic appointment at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.Dr. Bruner received an M.D. from the University of Louisville, Ky., and a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Chicago. He was chairman of the pharmacology department at the University of North Carolina from 1947 until 1949, when he became chief scientist, medical division, Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies in Tennessee, serving until 1952, when he was appointed chairman of the department of physiology at Emory University, Ga.As chief of the medical branch, Dr. Bruner will be responsible for administering the commission's medical program, including research on the mechanism, diagnosis, and treatment of radiation injury and the application