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December 3, 1992                                       
Space researcher inducted into international academy   
                                                       
     Norman F. Ness, president of the Bartol Research Institute at the
University of Delaware, was formally welcomed as a foreign associate
of the Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei at its annual awards meeting,
held Nov. 11 in Rome, Italy.                                 
     The academy was established in 1603 to recognize significant 
accomplishments and contributions to the physical sciences and the
humanities. It encourages research by publishing various periodicals
that have worldwide distribution. The academy also awards prizes, 
which are instituted by the president of Italy and the Ministry of
Education. This year's premier international prize amounted to 200
million lire ($150,000).                                     
     For each class of membership, there are at the most 270 members,
including an equal distribution among full members and corresponding
members as well as foreign associates.                       
     Ness was recognized for his significant contributions and
discoveries in the field of space research with particular emphasis on
the measurement of the weak magnetic fields in interplanetary space
and for discovering the magnetic fields of the planets Mercury,
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.                                  
     At the University, Ness also directs  the NASA Space Grant
College Program Consortium, which includes l0 Delaware and   
Pennsylvania institutions and strives to enhance the training and 
education of students in aerospace science and technology.   
     In his research, Ness is principal investigator of the magnetic
field experiment on the Voyager twin spacecraft, launched in 1977,
currently departing the solar system. He also is a co-investigator on
the recently launched USA Mars Observer spacecraft, scheduled for 
arrival at the target planet next August.                    
     Ness became president of the Bartol Research Institute in 1987. 
He  previously served as chief of the Laboratory for Extraterrestrial
Physics at the NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.  In
1983, he was elected to membership in the U.S. National Academy of
Science in the class of geophysics.                          
                                        -Beth Thomas