Science Talent Search 1946
Every year for over seven decades, forty finalists have been chosen to attend and compete in the Science Talent Institute week in Washington, DC. This page is a tribute to the memories and alumni of the Science Talent Search of 1946.
Top Boy
Jules Kernen
Top Girl
E. Marilyn Curran (Rohrer)
2nd Place Boy
Stephen Arnold
2nd Place Girl
Josephine Von Hippel (Raskind)
Remaining Top Ten in ABC order:
Douglas Baird
Richard Lewontin
Gordon Newkirk Jr.
Abraham Schweid
Arthur Sicular
Harold Zirin
Gala Speaker
Dr. E. U. Condon
1946 Alumni Updates
We welcome and encourage updates on alumni from the Science Talent Search in 1946; please contact us with information.
1946 Finalists
| Stephen | Arnold | Oak Park | IL |
| Douglas | Baird | Whitesboro | NY |
| Leon | Bush | New York | NY |
| John | Champeny | Wellington | KS |
| David | Cudaback | Napa | CA |
| James | Cumming | St Albans | NY |
| E. | Curran | Elizabethtown | PA |
| Jack | Durell | Bronx | NY |
| George | Gaines | Hamden | CT |
| Walter | Gall | Garfield | NJ |
| James | Gibson | Ellensburg | WA |
| Don | Herbert | Tulsa | OK |
| John | Hopkins, IV | Washington | DC |
| James | Hummel | Los Angeles | CA |
| Dorothy | Jackson | South Charleston | WV |
| Russell | Johnson | Nameoki | IL |
| Jules | Kernen | St Louis | MO |
| Neal | Kindig | Medicine Lodge | KS |
| Elaine | Knutsen | San Anselmo | CA |
| Dorothy | Kohnen | Chicago | IL |
| Daniel | Larson | Downers Grove | IL |
| Elizabeth | Laufer | Philadelphia | PA |
| Richard | Lewontin | Kew Gardens | NY |
| Gerald | Ludwig | Bronx | NY |
| Alice | McCollough | Eugene | OR |
| Gordon | Newkirk, Jr | West Orange | NJ |
| Joan | Oates | Syracuse | NY |
| Elizabeth | Roemer | Alameda | CA |
| Seymour | Sack | Poughkeepsie | PA |
| Abraham | Schweid | New York | NY |
| Gilbert | Seely | Blaine | WA |
| James | Shields | San Francisco | CA |
| Donald | Shombert | Pittsburgh | PA |
| Arthur | Sicular | New York | NY |
| Ilonka | Turner | St Albans | NY |
| Josephine | Von Hippel | Forest Hills | NY |
| Robert | West, Jr | Caldwell | NJ |
| Kenneth | Widing | Brainerd | MN |
| Patricia | Wixom | Boulder | CO |
| Harold | Zirin | Bridgeport | CT |