Forty-two Harvard and Radcliffe students have been named recipients of fellowships from the National Science Foundation, it was officially announced yesterday. These students are among 556 seniors and graduate students throughout the United States, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico granted fellowships by the Foundation to stimulate graduate study in the sciences.

Allowances for the award-winning fellows in their first year of graduate study will be $1,400; for those in their intermediate years, $1,600; those in their terminal year of graduate study will receive $1,800; and post-doctoral winners will get $3,400.

The winners were selected on the basis of academic record, recommendations from scientists in their fields, and on the basis of an examination testing scientific aptitude, administered by the Educational Testing Service.

Research under the awards may be undertaken at any institution of higher learning in the United States, or in universities abroad that are approved by the Foundation. The Foundation was created in a bill signed by President Truman in 1950. Its aim is to develop and encourage basic research and education in the sciences, and to help increase the insufficient supply of scientists and engineers.

The largest group of fellowships, 129, was granted in chemistry. Other fields include, physics, engineering, mathematics, zoology, biochemistry, geosciences, botany, medical sciences, psychology, and anthropology.

The names and fields of the 42 winners from the University are:

Igor Alexeff '52, physics; Leonard E. Baum '53, mathematics; Jolane P. Baumgarten 1G, medical sciences; John M. Birmingham 1G, chemistry; Robert J. Blattner '53, mathematics; Ronald C. Breslow '53, chemistry; Richard M. Chrenko 1G, physics; Edith C. Clarke, biochemistry; Victor H. Cohn, Jr. 1G, medical sciences; and Marshall L. Freimer '53, mathematics.

Also included are David Garfinkel 1G, biochemistry; David M. Geller 1G, biochemistry; Walter Gilbert '53, physics; Richard B. Hiatt 1G, chemistry; John R. Hughes 1G, psychology; Peter M. Kamb 1G, botany; Ralph W. Kilb 1G, chemistry; Joshua K. Kopp '53, physics; Paul H. Kydd 1G, chemistry; Francis L. Lambert 1G, zoology; Henry J. Landau '53, mathematics; Andrew D. Liehr 1G, physics; Robert D. Lundberg, chemistry; and James C. Martin 1G, chemistry.

Others are Paul C. Martin '52, physics; Bruce H. Morgan '53, physics; Frederick C. Neidhardt 1G, medical sciences; Martha M. Nicely, zoology; Richard S. Palais '52, mathematics; Dallas L. Peck 1G, geo-sciences; Carl A. Price, biochemistry; Frederick M. Richards, biochemistry.

Willard D. Roth 3G, zoology; Felix T. Smith 1G, chemistry; David B. Stewart, geo-sciences; George H. Stout '53, chemistry; John. M Teem 3G, physics; Peter P. Vaughn 3G, zoology; Robert C. West, Jr. 3G, chemistry; Edward O. Wilson 2G, zoology; William N. White 3G, chemistry, and Ariel C. Zemach '51, physics, conclude the list