Educator, Physiologist, Historian of Science

Date of Birth: June 18, 1921; Berlin, Germany

US Citizen 1941 Single
 
 

Home Address: 6214 Towles Road, Wilmington NC, 28409

Office Address: Institute for Research on the Interrelation of Science and Culture, Inc.

1601 Doctors Circle, Wilmington NC 27401
 
 

Education

AB Chemistry, Philosphy - Columbia University, 1940.

A. Sc. Biochemistry, Physical Chemistry - University of rochester, 1941.

B. Ph.D. - Biochemistry, Physical Chemistry - University of Rochester, 1943.
 

Research and Professional Experience

1989 to present: Executive Director and Principal Investigator,
                         Institute for Research on the Interrelation of Science and Culture

1986-1989 Program Director, Program in Science and Culture, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

1973-1986 Director, Institute for Marine Biomedical research, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

1970-1973 Professor of Marine Psysiology and Head of the Department of Marine Biomedical research, University of North Carolina  at Wilmington

1966-1970 Director, Wrightsville Marine Biomedical Laboratory Wilmington, NC

1964-1966 Principal Investigator, Biological and Medical Sciences Division; Chairman, Oceanography Planning Committee,

U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory.

1951-1964 Head, Pharmacology Branch, U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory

1947-1951 Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Biochemistry;

Acting Head, Pharmacology Department, Louisiana State University School of Medicine.

1944-1947 Instructor in Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

1944 Research Associate, Biochemistry, University of Rochester

1943-1944 Research Chemist, Distillation Products, Inc.
 

Special Appointments, Honors, Etc.

1997 Honorary D. Sc. - University of North Carolina, Wilmington

1988 Chairman, Symposium on "The Idea of Progress in Three Cultures", History of Science Society.

1987 Editor of monograph "Hydrogen as a Diving Gas."

1986 A.R. Behnke, Jr. Award of Undersea Medical Society, Inc.

1985 Chairman, International Conference on Hydrogen as a Component of Deep Diving Atmospheres.

1981 Stover Link Award of Undersea Medical Society for Outstanding Scientific Contributions.

1981-1988 Associate Editor, Journal of Undersea Biomedical Research.

1980-1985 Member, National Research Council Advisory Committee on USSR and Eastern Europe.

1979-1985 Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Physiology.

1974-1975 Chairman, North Carolina Marine Science Council

1973 Editor of "Barobiology and the Experimental Biology of the Deep Sea," published by North Carolina Sea Grant Program.

1971 Chairman, International Conference on High Pressure Aquarium Systems, Wrightsville Marine Bio-Medical Laboratory.

1962 Member, Organizing Committee, New York Academy of Sciences Conference on the Fetal Liver.

1961 Mary Scott Newbold Lecturer, College of Physicians, Philadelphia

1960 Chairman, Conference on Environmental Factors in Aging, Second International Congress of Gerontology.

1959-1965 Chairman, Research Committee, San Mateo Heart Association.

1958-1964 Member, Atomic Energy Commission, National Institute of Health Panel on Radiologic Aging

1958 Editor of "Liver Function", published by American Institute of Biological Sciences

1956 Chairman, International Symposium on Quantitative Description of Liver Function

1955-1964 Member, Editorial Board, American Journal of Physiology and the Journal of Applied Physiology

1950-1951 Chief, Radiological Defense, State of Louisiana
 
 
 
 

Last update:  September 09, 1997