Philosophical Society Elects UCLA Professor

J. William Schopf, director of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life, is among 20 scholars and scientists elected nationally to the American Philosophical Society. Schopf, a West Los Angeles resident, is a geologist, biochemist, paleobiologist, microbiologist, organic geochemist and electron microscopist, as well a professor of earth and space sciences at UCLA.