Awards

A pair of little-known prizes with large cash perquisites went to four U.S. scientists last week for their work in practical atomics. To Jesse Charles Johnson, director of the Atomic Energy Commission's raw materials division, went the Ambrose Monell Medal and a whopping $25,000 for directing the AEC's extraordinarily successful uranium prospecting and extraction program. Another $25,000, and congratulations from President Kennedy, went to a trio of Army civilian engineers for developing a nuclear explosive that has yet to be tested as a weapon. Robert M. Schwartz got $15,000 from the Secretary of the Army, and Milton E. Epton and Mrs. Irving Mayer, representing her late husband, got $5,000 each for the construction of an atomic warhead light enough for the infantry's one-man Davy Crockett rocket.

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