RT Journal
T1 GOvernment services
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1959
FD February 14
VO 169
IS 7
SP 728
OP 728
DO 10.1001/jama.1959.03000240066014
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03000240066014
AB NAVY 
    Space Medicine Award.— 
    Capt. Charles F. Gell, M. C., U. S. Navy, was presented the Melbourne W. Boynton Award for Space Medicine at the Honor's Night Dinner of the American Astronautical Society's Annual Meeting in Washington, D. C., in December. The presentation was made by Rear Adm. Edward C. Kenney, M. C., U. S. Navy. The society presents this award at the end of each year to the person who has made an outstanding contribution to astronautics through medical research. Captain Gell was chosen for his work in the fields of multicrew long duration confinement and explosive decompression of mammals.Personal.— 
    At the Southern Regional Meeting of the International College of Surgeons in Miami, in January, Rear Adm. Bartholomew W. Hogan, the Navy surgeon general, presented a paper entitled, "Medical Problems of Nuclear Warfare Defense and Civil Disaster." Capt. Carl E. Wilbur, M. C., U. S. Navy, and Capt.