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#934 497 IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 12, 1946 STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT In accordance with the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, I am today appointing a General Advisory Committee to advise the Atomic Energy Commission on "scientific and technical matters relating to materials, production, and research and development." RUM NARA The appointees are as follows: James Bryant Conant Lee A(1vin) DuBridge Enrico Fermi J. Robert Oppenheimer I. I. Rabi Hartley Rowe Glenn T(heodore) Seaborg Cyril Stanley Smith Hood Worthington I am advised by the Atomic Energy Commission that it will establish other committees to advise it on the problems and the applications of atomic energy in specific fields, including, among others, Biology and Medicine, Geology and Mining, and the Social Sciences.