PAST RECIPIENTS
Betty Ferrell, PhD, CHPN, FAAN, FPCN聽has been in nursing for 46 years and has focused her clinical expertise and research in pain management, quality of life, and palliative care. Dr. Ferrell is the Director of Nursing Research & Education and a Professor at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and she more than 500 publications in peer-reviewed journals and texts. She is Principal Investigator of the 鈥淓nd-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)鈥� project. She directs several other funded projects related to palliative care in cancer centers and Quality of Life (QoL) issues. Dr. Ferrell was Co-Chairperson of the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care. Dr. Ferrell completed a Masters degree in Theology, Ethics and Culture from Claremont Graduate University in 2007.
She has authored eleven books including the聽Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing聽(5th Edition, 2019) published by Oxford University Press. She is co-author of the text,听The Nature of Suffering and the Goals聽of Nursing聽published by Oxford University Press (2nd Ed, 2023) and聽Making Health Care Whole:聽Integrating Spirituality into Patient Care聽(Templeton Press, 2010).
In 2013, Dr. Ferrell was named one of the 30 Visionaries in the field by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. In 2019 she was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2021, Dr. Ferrell received the Oncology Nursing Society Lifetime Achievement Award and she was inducted as a 鈥淟iving Legend鈥� by the American Academy of Nursing.
Dr. Newsome is the Harman Family Professor of Neurobiology and Founding Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University. He received a Bachelor of science degree in physics from Stetson University and a doctorate in biology from the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Newsome is a leading investigator in systems and cognitive neuroscience. He has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception and simple forms of decision-making.
His honors are the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the Dan David Prize of Tel Aviv University, the Karl Spencer Lashley Award of the American Philosophical Society, and the Champalimaud Vision Award. His distinguished lectureships include the thirteenth Annual Marr Lecture at the University of Cambridge the ninth Annual Brenda Milner Lecture at McGill University, and the Distinguished Visiting Scholar lectures at the Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind, UCSD. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, to the American Philosophical Society in 2011, and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017. Newsome co-chaired the NIH BRAIN working group, charged with forming a national plan for the coming decade of neuroscience research in the United States.
Bill is a husband, a father, and an enthusiastic amateur photographer. He is an active member of St. Mark鈥檚 Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, California, and regularly speaks to university, seminary, and public audiences on topics in science and faith.
Ellen Mosley-Thompson, PhD, is a Distinguished University Professor in Geography (Atmospheric Science) and a Senior Research Scientist in the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at The Ohio State University.
Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson is globally recognized for her numerous contributions to polar science, glaciology and paleoclimatology. Since the 1970s, she has pursued the acquisition of ice core-derived climate histories extracted primarily from both polar ice sheets as well as from non-polar, high-elevation glaciers. Early in her career, she was instrumental in encouraging the polar glaciological community to focus more strongly on high temporal resolution (e.g., annual) climate histories, particularly from remote sites situated away from established stations in Antarctica and Greenland. Since the early1980s, Dr. Mosley-Thompson has advocated strongly for enhanced gender equality in polar science. In 1986, she was the first woman to lead an ice core drilling project to a remote field camp on the East Antarctic Plateau near the Pole of Inaccessibility. She has led nine expeditions to Antarctica and six to Greenland to retrieve ice cores. These unique cores, coupled with those recovered by Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson from the lower latitudes, constitute a collection of cores from both poles and everywhere in between. Our ultimate scientific objective has been, and continues to be, the reconstruction of Earth鈥檚 climate history at the highest possible temporal resolution on local, regional and global scales, which is why the acquisition of this global collection of ice core-derived records has been essential.
As an early career scientist, Dr. Mosley-Thompson was invited to serve on the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Board on Global Change (1987鈭�1992), which was tasked with designing and implementing the US Global Climate Research Program. She has served several terms on the NAS Polar Research Board, NSF鈥檚 Polar Programs Advisory Committee and various NAS Study Groups including 鈥淓merging Research Questions in the Arctic.鈥� Dr. Mosley-Thompson served for 10 years as the first female Director of The Ohio State University鈥檚 Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (2009鈭�18) and has published 145 peer-reviewed papers and received 57 research grants. She is a聽co-recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal, the Dan David Prize, and the Common Wealth Award for Science and Invention with Dr. Lonnie Thompson. She is an elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Mosley-Thompson was raised in Charleston, West Virginia by her parents, Houston L. and Elizabeth R. Mosley, who encouraged and supported her early interests in science and math. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Marshall University in Huntington, WV, where she met Lonnie Thompson. She received her Master of Science and PhD in Geography (climatology and atmospheric science) from The Ohio State University. Dr. Mosley-Thompson and Dr. Thompson are the proud parents of Regina E. Thompson, a source of constant joy and inspiration.
Lonnie G. Thompson, PhD, is a Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences and a Senior Research Scientist in the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at The Ohio State University.
Dr. Thompson is one of the world鈥檚 foremost authorities on paleoclimatology and glaciology. He has led 64 expeditions over the last 45 years, conducting ice-core drilling programs in the Polar Regions, as well as on the high mountain glaciers in 16 countries including China, Peru, Russia, Tanzania and Papua, Indonesia. Dr. Thompson and his team were the first to develop lightweight solar-powered drills for acquiring cores from ice fields in the high Andes and on Mount Kilimanjaro. The results from these ice-core-derived climate histories have been published in 260 articles. In the 1970s, his team retrieved the first ice cores from a remote tropical ice cap, Quelccaya in the Andes of Peru, and analyze them for ancient climate signals.
Dr. Thompson was awarded the Vega Medal by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography and the John and Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. In 2005, he was selected by Time Magazine and recognized by CNN as one of America's Best in science and medicine. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, and in 2007, he received the U.S. National Medal of Science, the highest honor awarded to American scientists. The next year, he received the Seligman Crystal, the highest professional award given in Glaciology, and he and Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson were jointly awarded the Dan David Prize. In 2009, Dr. Thompson was elected as a foreign member of the Chinese National Academy of Sciences, and in 2012 he and Dr. Mosley-Thompson both received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science. In 2013, Lonnie received the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award, the highest award given to a foreign scientist by the Chinese government, and two years ago, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Thompson is the second of three children born to Roscoe W. and Frances I. Thompson and grew up on a small farm in rural Gassaway, West Virginia. He gained a deep appreciation and curiosity for nature while roaming the surrounding hills and meadows and developed an early interest in meteorology. He received a Bachelor of Science in geology at Marshall University where he met Dr. Mosley-Thompson. He came to The Ohio State University to study coal geology and during his first semester, he was offered a research position in what was then the Institute of Polar Studies to study ice. He took the position and in the winter of 1973/74, he joined an expedition to Antarctica, which changed his career trajectory to glaciology. In 1976, Dr. Thompson and Dr. Mosley Thompson welcomed their daughter, Regina E. Thompson, whom they both consider their most important contribution. On May 1, 2012, Lonnie underwent a successful heart transplant and has since conducted six successful expeditions including setting the world elevation record for a heart transplant patient on the 22,000 ft Guliya ice cap in 2015.
Sylvia A. Earle, PhD, is an American oceanographer and explorer known for her research on marine algae and her books and documentaries designed to raise awareness of the threats that overfishing and pollution pose to the world鈥檚 oceans. A pioneer in the use of modern self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA) gear and the development of deep-sea submersibles, Earle also held the world record for the deepest untethered dive.
Earle was the second of three children born to electrical engineer Lewis Reade Earle and his wife, Alice Freas Richie. She spent her early life on a small farm near Camden, New Jersey, where she gained a respect and appreciation for the wonders of nature through her own explorations of nearby woods and the empathy her parents showed to living things. When she was 12, her father moved the family to Dunedin, Florida, where the family鈥檚 waterfront property afforded Earle the opportunity to investigate living things inhabiting nearby salt marshes and sea grass beds.
Earle first learned to dive with SCUBA gear while attending Florida State University. She majored in botany and graduated in 1955. Later that year she enrolled in the master鈥檚 program in botany at Duke University, graduating in 1956. She completed her thesis work on algae in the Gulf of Mexico. She completed a PhD in 1966, publishing her dissertation Phaeophyta of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico in 1969. For this project she collected over 20,000 samples of algae. Earle鈥檚 postgraduate experiences were a mixture of research and groundbreaking oceanographic exploration. In 1965, she accepted a position as the resident director of Cape Haze Marine Laboratories in Sarasota, Florida. Two years later she became a research fellow at the Farlow Herbarium of Harvard University and a research scholar at the Radcliffe Institute. The next year she discovered undersea dunes off the coast of the Bahamas. In 1970, she led the first all-female team of women aquanauts as part of the Tektite II experiment, a project designed to explore the marine realm and test the viability of deepwater habitats and the health effects of prolonged living in underwater structures. The habitat was located about 15 meters (about 50 feet) below the surface of Great Lameshur Bay off the island of St. John in the US Virgin Islands. During the two-week experiment, she observed the effects of pollution on coral reefs firsthand. Occurring during a time when American women were just beginning to enter fields traditionally staffed by men, the Tektite II project captured the imagination of scientists and nonscientists alike because Earle鈥檚 team did the same work as previous all-male crews.
Earle led numerous undersea expeditions over her career. Her oceanographic research took her to such places as the Galapagos Islands, China, and the Bahamas. In the 1970s she began an association with the National Geographic Society to produce books and films on life in Earth鈥檚 oceans. In 1976 she became a curator and a research biologist at the California Academy of Sciences. In 1979, she became curator of phycology at the California Academy of Sciences. On September 19, 1979, she set the world untethered diving record, descending 381 meters (1,250 feet) beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean in a JIM diving suit, a special diving apparatus that maintains an interior pressure of 1 standard atmosphere (14.70 pounds per square inch). During the early 1980s Earle founded Deep Ocean Engineering and Deep Ocean Technology with British engineer Graham Hawkes. Together they designed the submersible Deep Rover, a vehicle capable of reaching depths of 914 meters (3,000 feet) beneath the surface of the ocean.
Earle served on the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere between 1980 and 1984. Between 1990 and 1992 Earle was the chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the first woman to serve in that position. In 1998 she became the National Geographic Society鈥檚 first female explorer in residence. Throughout her career she published over 100 scientific papers. Her other works include Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1994), Wild Ocean: America鈥檚 Parks Under the Sea (1999) with American author Wolcott Henry, and The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean鈥檚 Are One (2009).
Dr. Ramanathan discovered the greenhouse effect of halocarbons聽in 1975. He also contributed to the early development of global circulation models聽and the detecting and attribution of climate change. His research accomplishments are prodigious and include predicting that global warming would be detected by 2000 and using satellite radiation budget instruments to conclude that clouds had a large global cooling effect.
In the 1990s, he discovered the widespread Atmospheric Brown Clouds (ABCs) over S. Asia, which have devastating health and climate impacts and developed light weight unmanned aerial vehicles to track pollution plumes from S. Asia, E. Asia and N. America. His recent finding that mitigation of short lived climate pollutants (black carbon, methane, ozone and HFCs) will slow down global warming significantly during this century has resulted in a proposal that was adopted by the United Nations and 30 countries including USA and a new coalition, called as the, Climate and Clean Air Coalition is implementing mitigation actions for short lived climate pollutants. Dr. Ramanathan has won numerous prestigious awards including the Tyler prize, the top environment prize given in the US; the Volvo Prize; the Rossby Prize and the Zayed prize.in addition. He has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, the Pontifical Academy by Pope John Paul II and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Currently, he serves in Pope Francis' Council for the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and was the co-organizer of a 2014 Vatican meeting on "Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Nature" of social and natural scientists, philosophers and policy makers.
Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MD, FACP, OON, an internationally renowned pioneer in cancer genetics, has been named as the recipient of TikTok成人版 Unviersity鈥檚 2017 Mendel Medal. Dr. Olopade serves as the Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics and Director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics at The University of Chicago. The award recognizes her work in developing innovative strategies for comprehensive cancer risk assessment and prevention based on evolving understanding of genetic and non-genetic factors in individual patients, with a focus on women of African ancestry. Established in 1928 by the Board of Trustees of TikTok成人版, the Mendel Medal is given to outstanding contemporary scientists in recognition of their accomplishments.
鈥淭he Mendel Medal selection committee was very impressed with Dr. Olopade鈥檚 work in breast cancer genetics, especially on the impact of聽BRCA1听补苍诲听叠搁颁础2听mutations in young women across the African diaspora,鈥� said the Rev. Kail Ellis, PhD, OSA, Special Assistant to the President and Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. 鈥淗er research in the incidence of breast cancer among minority populations as well as disparities in health outcomes, are particularly in accord with the criteria for the award of the Mendel Medal.鈥�
The Mendel Medal is conferred on 鈥渙utstanding scientists who have done much by their painstaking work to advance the cause of science and, by their lives and their standing before the world as scientists, have demonstrated that between true science and true religion there is no intrinsic conflict.鈥�
Using high intensity genomic technologies and bioinformatics, Dr. Olopade鈥檚 laboratory research focuses on molecular mechanisms of cancer through genetic and non-genetic factors that contribute to tumor progression in at-risk individuals and diverse populations. The overall goal of her research is to accelerate progress in cancer prevention and treatment.
鈥淒r. Olopade鈥檚 mission as a medical researcher and medical professional, to, in her words, seek 鈥榞enetic justice鈥� for women and their families around the world, . . . by challenging existing paradigms in how breast cancer is detected, diagnosed and treated鈥� is truly an inspiration,鈥� said Father Ellis. 鈥淗er resolve to discover why the most aggressive forms of breast cancer strike young women of African ancestry is unflinching.鈥�
In 2005, Dr. Olopade authored a pioneering study that found significant differences between breast cancers in Caucasian women and in women of African descent. She has published widely in medical and scientific journals. Dr. Olopade is an elected member of several honor societies, including the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. She has received numerous honors and awards, including honorary degrees from Bowdoin University and Princeton University; MacArthur Foundation Fellowship; Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist and Exceptional Mentor Award; American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship; Officer of the Order of the Nigeria Award; and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Freedom from Want Award. Dr. Olopade has served on the Board of Directors for the National Cancer Advisory Board and the American Board of Internal Medicine. Currently she serves on the Board of Directors for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Lyric Opera of Chicago and the MacArthur Foundation.
Dr. Olopade earned her medical degree from the University of Ibadan College of Medicine in Nigeria. She trained in Internal Medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and in Oncology, Hematology and Cancer Genetics at the Joint Section of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Chicago.
Anthony S. Fauci, MD,听preeminent immunologist, pioneering HIV/AIDS researcher and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has been named as the recipient of TikTok成人版's 2016 Mendel Medal. The award recognizes Dr. Fauci鈥檚 significant contribution to the body of scientific knowledge in preventing, diagnosing and treating infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, Ebola and the Zika virus, as well as for his lifelong dedication to global health. 聽Established in 1928 by the Board of Trustees of TikTok成人版, the Mendel Medal is given to outstanding contemporary scientists in recognition of their accomplishments.
鈥淭ikTok成人版 is honored to award the Mendel Award to this esteemed scientist,鈥� said the Rev. Kail Ellis, PhD, OSA, Special Assistant to the President and Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. 鈥淚 am particularly pleased that faculty, and especially students, will have an opportunity to hear Dr. Anthony Fauci in person, as he lectures on his research and contributions to the current understanding of diseases and therapies for such fatal diseases as HIV/AIDS, Ebola and Zika virus.鈥�
Dr. Fauci is currently at the vanguard of the nation鈥檚 public health preparations to meet the threat of the Zika virus.聽 As Director of the NIAID, he oversees an extensive portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika.聽 Dr. Fauci has advised five Presidents and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on HIV/AIDS and many other domestic and global health issues. He was one of the principal architects of the President鈥檚 Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that has saved millions of lives throughout the developing world.聽
鈥淣ot since the 1918聽influenza聽pandemic, which killed as many as 50 million people around the globe and is considered one of history鈥檚 most deadly contagions, has the world been faced with the threat posed by such an array of devastating epidemics,鈥� said Father Ellis. 鈥淗umankind is indebted to Dr. Fauci for decades of dedicated work that is helping to make the widespread transmission of these diseases less likely.鈥�
In addition to his role at NIH, Dr. Fauci is also the long-time chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation, where he has been a pioneer in helping develop effective therapies for formerly fatal inflammatory and immune-mediated diseases. In addition, he has made groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of how HIV destroys the body鈥檚 defenses leading to its susceptibility to deadly infections and has been instrumental in developing treatments that enable people with HIV to live long and active lives. He continues to devote much of his research in this area of endeavor.聽In a 2016 analysis of Google Scholar citations, Dr. Fauci ranked as the 18th most highly cited researcher of all time.
Dr. Fauci has delivered major lectures all over the world and is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the highest honor given to a civilian by the President of the United States), the National Medal of Science, the George M. Kober Medal of the Association of American Physicians, the Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service, the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, the Robert Koch Gold Medal, the Prince Mahidol Award, and the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award. 聽He also has received 43 honorary doctoral degrees from universities in the United States and abroad.
Dr. Fauci is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Philosophical Society, as well as other professional societies, including the American College of Physicians, The American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, The American Association of Immunologists, and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. He serves on the editorial boards of many scientific journals; as an editor of聽Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine; and as author, coauthor, or editor of more than 1,280 scientific publications, including several textbooks.鈥�
TikTok成人版 has named Nobel Prize-winning Biochemist Brian Kobilka, MD, holder of the Helene Irwin Fagan Chair in Cardiology at Stanford University, as the recipient of its 2015 Mendel Medal, in recognition of his groundbreaking work on G-protein-coupled receptors in the human body, the structures through which cells sense and respond to chemical signals in the human body. The Mendel Medal, established in 1928 by the Board of Trustees of TikTok成人版, honors outstanding pioneering scientists who have demonstrated, by their lives and their standing before the world as scientists, that there is no intrinsic conflict between science and religion.
TikTok成人版鈥檚 Mendel Medal honors 19th聽century Augustinian friar and scientist Gregor Johann Mendel, Abbot of the Augustinian Monastery, Br眉nn, Austria, (now Brno, the Czech Republic), best known as 鈥渢he father of modern genetics鈥� for his discovery of the celebrated laws of heredity that bear his name. Past recipients of the award have included Nobel Laureates, outstanding medical researchers, and pioneers in physics, astrophysics and chemistry, as well as noted scientist-theologians.
Dr. Kobilka, a Professor of Medicine in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2012 for groundbreaking discoveries that revealed the inner workings of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The receptors, which wind in and out of the cell membrane, serve as one of the main methods of communication within the human body, by conveying chemical messages into the cell's interior from outside through the membrane. GPCRs regulate nearly every physiological process in the body, including the beating of the heart and the functioning of the brain. GPCRs have become the largest group of targets of new therapeutics for a very broad spectrum of diseases. About half of all medications today make use of GPCRs.
Dr. Kobilka has spent more than three decades studying, discovering and understanding GPCRs. He was the first to crystallize one of the receptors in the act of activating its cytosolic signaling partner, a critical step toward understanding how to control, target and treat them.
鈥淚t is a great honor to award Dr. Kobilka the 2015 Mendel Medal,鈥� said The Rev. Kail Ellis, OSA, PhD, TikTok成人版鈥檚 Vice President for Academic Affairs. 鈥淎 brilliant and dedicated scientist, he is also very humble, recognizing and crediting others as key to his success. A mentor to young scientists, he encourages them to persevere in research as they can be successful and find it rewarding. And an advocate for scientific funding, he laments government budget cuts as shortsighted because 鈥榖asic research ultimately leads to pharmaceutical products and other innovations from which we all benefit.鈥� Adjectives used to describe his character are kind, generous, humble, thoughtful and courageous. As such he epitomizes Mendel鈥檚 scientific legacy.鈥�
Dr. Kobilka received Bachelor of Science degrees in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Minnesota, Duluth in 1977. He graduated from Yale University School of Medicine in 1981, and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the Barnes Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri in 1984.聽 From 1984-1989 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Robert Lefkowitz at Duke University.聽 In 1990 he joined the faculty of Medicine and Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. He was promoted to Professor of Medicine and Molecular and Cellular Physiology in 2000. He is the co-founder of ConformetRx, a biotechnology company focusing on GPCRs.
Dr. Kobilka is the 1994 recipient of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology. In 2004 he won the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. His GPCR structure work was named "runner-up" for the 2007 "Breakthrough of the Year" award from聽Science听尘补驳补锄颈苍别.
TikTok成人版 has named world-renowned epidemiologist and 鈥渕icrobe hunter鈥� W. Ian Lipkin, MD, as the recipient of its 2014 Mendel Medal in recognition of his groundbreaking work in the development of genetic methods for microbial surveillance and discovery, as well as his research into infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, SARS, and West Nile Virus.
Dr. Lipkin is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University, as well as a Professor of Neurology and Pathology. He serves as Director of both the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University鈥檚 Mailman School of Public Health, and the National Institute of Health (NIH) Center for Diagnostics and Discovery. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the NIH and is the Scientific Director of the Joint Research Laboratory for Pathogen Discovery Laboratory in the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Named 鈥渢he world鈥檚 most celebrated virus hunter鈥� by聽Discover聽Magazine, Dr. Lipkin鈥檚 scientific contributions include the first use of genetic methods to identify an infectious agent; discovery of the implication of West Nile virus as the cause of encephalitis in North America in 1999; invention of MassTag PCR and the first panmicrobial microarray; first use of deep sequencing in pathogen discovery; and molecular characterization of more than 500 viruses. In 2003, at the height of the SARS outbreak, Dr. Lipkin traveled to China at the invitation of the World Health Organization, the Chinese Minister of Science and Technology and the Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Science to co-direct research efforts and train Chinese microbiologists how to test for the virus. More recently, he was the sole external investigator invited by the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia to assist in identifying reservoirs and vectors for transmission of the MERS coronavirus.
鈥淚t is an honor for TikTok成人版 to host Dr. Lipkin as the 2014 recipient of the Mendel Medal Award,鈥� said The Rev. Kail Ellis, OSA, PhD, TikTok成人版鈥檚 Vice President for Academic Affairs.聽 鈥淒r. Lipkin鈥檚 rigorous scientific method to detect and eradicate diseases exemplifies his dedication to humanity and has brought about a new era in modern genetics.鈥�
TikTok成人版鈥檚 Mendel Medal honors 19th聽century Augustinian friar and scientist Gregor Johann Mendel, Abbot of the Augustinian Monastery, Br眉nn, Austria, (now Brno, the Czech Republic), best known as 鈥渢he father of modern genetics鈥� for his discovery of the celebrated laws of heredity that bear his name. Past recipients of the Mendel Medal have included Nobel Laureates, outstanding medical researchers, pioneers in physics, astrophysics and chemistry, and noted scientist-theologians.
Added Fr. Ellis, 鈥淪hortly before his death in 1884, Gregor Mendel was said to have stated: 鈥楳y scientific labors have brought me a great deal of satisfaction, and I am convinced that before long the entire world will praise the results of these labors.鈥� Mendel鈥檚 words are an inspiration for all who labor quietly and unrecognized, but whose faith, dedication to their work and conviction of the significance of their labors gives them the confidence to persevere.鈥�
Dr. Lipkin was named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences and has served as a Visiting Professor at the Japanese Human Science Foundation and at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was named an American Society of Microbiology Foundation Lecturer, a Distinguished Lecturer of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, and the Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar in Global Infectious Disease. He is a Fellow of: the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Society for Microbiology, the Wildlife Conservation Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In addition, he is a member of the Association of American Physicians, the Oxford University Simonyi lecturer, the John Courage Professor at the National University of Singapore, and the Kinyoun Lecturer National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Lipkin has been active in translating science to the public through print and digital media. He acted as chief scientific consultant for the Hollywood film 鈥淐ontagion,鈥� has been featured in dozens of news publications and most recently provided consultation to the creators of the 鈥淧lague Inc.鈥� smartphone app.
TikTok成人版 has named renowned theoretical physicist Sylvester James 鈥淛im鈥� Gates, Jr., PhD, as the recipient of its 2013 Mendel Medal in recognition of his influential work in supersymmetry, supergravity and string theory, as well as his advocacy for science and science education in the United States and abroad. The Mendel Medal, established in 1928 by the Board of Trustees of TikTok成人版, honors pioneering scientists who have demonstrated, by their lives and their standing before the world as scientists, that there is no intrinsic conflict between science and religion.
Dr. Gates received The National Medal of Science, the nation鈥檚 highest award in science, earlier this year. He is the current John S. Toll Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for String & Particle Theory at The University of Maryland. Additionally, Dr. Gates is a University System of Maryland Regents Professor, University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also serves on the U.S. President鈥檚 Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and on the Maryland State Board of Education. In 2013, Dr. Gates was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, becoming the first African-American physicist so recognized in its 150-year history.
TikTok成人版鈥檚 Mendel Medal honors 19th聽century Augustinian friar and scientist Gregor Johann Mendel, Abbot of the Augustinian Monastery, Br眉nn, Austria, (now Brno, the Czech Republic), best known as 鈥渢he father of modern genetics鈥� for his discovery of the celebrated laws of heredity that bear his name. TikTok成人版 is one of only two Augustinian Catholic institutions of higher education in the country. Past recipients of the Mendel Medal have included Nobel Laureates, outstanding medical researchers, pioneers in physics, astrophysics and chemistry, and noted scientist-theologians.
鈥淭ikTok成人版 is delighted to honor Professor Gates for his work as an internationally known advocate for science and science education,鈥� said the Rev. Kail Ellis, OSA, PhD, TikTok成人版鈥檚 Vice President for Academic Affairs. 鈥淚n addition to his outstanding scientific achievements, Professor Gates believes that faith enables science 鈥� as it allows us to contemplate our relationship with each other and with the Creator 鈥� while acknowledging that science is essential for the survival of our species in a world beset with climate change.鈥�
Added Fr. Ellis, 鈥淧rofessor Gates has said that science is ultimately also 鈥榓n act of faith鈥攆aith that we will be capable of understanding the way the universe is put together.鈥� This is the foundation on which the Mendel Medal was established.鈥�
Dr. Gates has avidly promoted science and science education as a frequent guest on The Public Broadcast System鈥檚 NOVA productions and as a featured presenter at the World Science Festivals. He has delivered the annual Karplus Lecture to the National Science Teachers Association and has received the Public Understanding of Science and Technology Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
TikTok成人版 has named Ahmed H. Zewail, PhD, the recipient of its 2012 TikTok成人版 Mendel Medal, for his pioneering developments in the sciences as well as his dedication to the promotion of education and partnership for world peace. Dr. Zewail was the sole recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking developments in聽femtoscience, making possible observations of atomic motions during molecular transformations in femtosecond, a millionth of a billionth of a second. He is currently the Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) and Director of the Moore Foundation鈥檚 Center for Physical Biology at CalTech.
鈥淒r.聽Zewail epitomizes the purpose of the Mendel Medal,鈥� added Fr. Ellis. 鈥淗e has publicly advocated for a more peaceful and just world that can be achieved through investments in education and economic development, and with respect for faith and religion.鈥澛�
Dr. Zewail has garnered honors from around the globe for his contributions to science and for his public service, including the 1999 Nobel Prize. His groundbreaking developments in femtoscience have made possible observations of ephemeral molecular phenomena on the femtosecond time scale of atomic motion. More recently, he and his group have developed the field of 4D electron microscopy for the direct visualization of materials and biological behavior. In the four dimensions of space and time, both the structure and dynamics of nanomachines can be imaged, and the applications range from atoms to cells.
Dr. Zewail serves on President Obama鈥檚 Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and also as the President鈥檚 Science Envoy to the Middle East. Prior to CalTech, he served as the Director of the National Science Foundation鈥檚 Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (LMS) for 10 years.
Dr. Zewail鈥檚 biography, 鈥淰oyage Through Time鈥� (and 鈥淎ge of Science鈥�) 鈥� published in 17 languages and editions 鈥� offers an expos茅 of his life, science and world affairs until the receipt of the Nobel Prize.
Forty Honorary Degrees in the sciences, arts, philosophy, law, medicine and humane letters have been conferred on Dr. Zewail, including those from Oxford, Cambridge, Peking, and Alexandria universities as well as the University of Pennsylvania. He has been decorated with Orders of State and Merit, including the Order of the Grand Collar of the Nile鈥擡gypt鈥檚 highest state honor. He has received the Albert Einstein World Award, Benjamin Franklin Medal, Leonardo da Vinci Award, Robert A. Welch Award, Wolf Prize, King Faisal Prize, Othmer Gold Medal, and the Priestly Gold Medal. In addition, postage stamps have been issued in commemoration of his contributions to science and humanity.
Dr. Zewail is an elected member of academies and learned societies, including the American Philosophical Society, National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society of London, French Academy, Russian Academy, Chinese Academy and the Swedish Academy. Over the years, he has given public lectures on science and on the promotion of education and partnership for world peace, and continues to serve on national and international boards for academic, cultural and world affairs.
Joseph M. DeSimone, Ph.D., the Chancellor鈥檚 Eminent Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been named the 2011 Mendel medalist. DeSimone also is an adjunct member at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. DeSimone has published over 270 scientific articles and has over 115 issued patents in his name with more than 120 patents pending.
In 2005, DeSimone was elected into the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. DeSimone has received 40 major awards and recognitions including the 2010 AAAS Mentor Award in recognition of his efforts to advance diversity in the chemistry PhD workforce; the 2009 NIH Director鈥檚 Pioneer Award; the 2009 North Carolina Award, the highest honor the State of North Carolina can bestow to recognize notable achievements of North Carolinians in the fields of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts and Public Service; the聽$500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention and Innovation; the 2008 Tar Heel of the Year by the聽Raleigh News & Observer; the 2007 Collaboration Success Award from the Council for Chemical Research; the 2005 ACS Award for Creative Invention; the 2002 John Scott Award presented by the City Trusts, Philadelphia, given to 鈥渢he most deserving鈥� men and women whose inventions have contributed in some outstanding way to the 鈥渃omfort, welfare and happiness鈥� of mankind; the 2002 Engineering Excellence Award by DuPont; the 2002 Wallace H. Carothers Award from the Delaware Section of the ACS; 2000 Oliver Max Gardner Award from the University of North Carolina, given to that person, who in the opinion of the Board of Governors鈥� Committee, 鈥�. . . during the current scholastic year, has made the greatest contribution to the welfare of the human race.鈥�
Among DeSimone鈥檚 notable inventions is an environmentally friendly manufacturing process that relies on supercritical carbon dioxide instead of water and bio-persistent surfactants (detergents) for the creation of fluoropolymers or high-performance plastics, such as Teflon庐.
In 2002, DeSimone, along with Dr. Richard Stack, a cardiologist at Duke, co-founded Bioabsorbable Vascular Solutions (BVS) to commercialize a fully bioabsorbable, drug-eluting stent. BVS was acquired by Guidant Corporation in 2003 and these stents are now being evaluated in a series of international clinical trials led by Abbott, enrolling over 1000 patients as of November 2009, for the treatment of coronary artery disease.
With the PRINT technology developed in the DeSimone lab, DeSimone鈥檚 group is now heavily focused on bringing the precision, uniformity, and mass production techniques associated with the fabrication of nanoscale features found in the microelectronics industry to the nano-medicine field for the fabrication and delivery of vaccines and therapeutics for the treatment and prevention of diseases.
DeSimone recently launched Liquidia Technologies, which now employs roughly 50 people in RTP and has raised over $50 million in venture financing. DeSimone鈥檚 laboratory and the PRINT technology recently became a foundation for the new $20 million Carolina Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence funded by the National Cancer Institute. DeSimone received his BS in Chemistry in 1986 from Ursinus College in Collegeville, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1990 from Virginia Tech.
Applying the lithographic fabrication technologies from the computer industry for the design and synthesis of new medicines and vaccines; Nanomedicine; Interventional oncology; Fluoropolymers: photolithography, fuel cells, microfluidics, minimally adhesive surfaces; Medical devices; Colloid, surfactant and surface chemistry; Patterning surfaces, manipulation of light; Polymer synthesis and processing in carbon dioxide: new polymers, interfacial science and colloids, reaction kinetics and engineering, green chemistry.
Dr. Robert G. Webster has been named the 2010 Mendel Medal recipient. The Mendel Medal was established in honor of Gregor Johann Mendel, Abbot of the Augustinian Monastery, Br眉nn, Austria, (now Brno, the Czech Republic), who discovered the celebrated laws of heredity, which now bear his name. The Mendel Medal is awarded to outstanding scientists who have done much by their painstaking work to advance the cause of science, and, by their lives and their standing before the world as scientists, have demonstrated that between true science and true religion there is no intrinsic conflict.
Dr. Webster is Professor in the Division of Virology; Department of Infectious Diseases at St. Jude Children鈥檚 Research Hospital and holds the Rose Marie Thomas Chair. A native of New Zealand, Dr. Webster received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Microbiology from Otago University in New Zealand. In 1962, he earned his Ph.D. from the Australian National University and spent the next two years as a Fulbright Scholar working on influenza in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dr. Webster鈥檚 interests include the emergence and control of influenza viruses, viral immunology, the structure and function of influenza virus proteins and the development of new vaccines and antivirals. The major focus of his research is the importance of influenza viruses in wild aquatic birds as a major reservoir of influenza viruses and their role in the evolution of new pandemic strains for humans and lower animals. His聽curriculum vitae聽contains over 500 original articles and reviews on influenza viruses. He has trained many scientists who now contribute to our understanding of the evolution and pathogenesis of influenza. He continues to work in the Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS), which he initiated at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
It has been 80 years since the Scopes Monkey Trial, but the debate between science and religion has never been as heated as it is now. Kenneth R. Miller, Ph.D., a professor of biology at Brown University, is a pre-eminent evolutionary scientist and the author of the most widely used high school biology textbook in America. He has been named the 2009 recipient of the Mendel Medal, which was established at TikTok成人版 in honor of Gregor Johann Mendel, Abbot of the Augustinian Monastery, Br眉nn, Austria, (now Brno, the Czech Republic), who discovered the celebrated laws of heredity which now bear his name.
Miller was the lead witness in the Pennsylvania 鈥渋ntelligent design鈥� case, which was the first direct challenge brought in U.S. federal courts against a public school district that required the presentation of 鈥渋ntelligent design鈥� as an alternative to evolution to explain the origin of life.
The case involved a group of parents who were suing the school district for requiring high school biology teachers to read a four-paragraph statement to students that casts doubt on Darwin's theory of evolution.
On the stand, Miller noted that virtually every prominent scientific organization in the United States has upheld Darwin's theory of evolution as an unshakeable pillar of science and that 鈥渋ntelligent design鈥� is 鈥渁 form of creationism.鈥� The ruling sided with the parents and barred intelligent design from being taught in Pennsylvania鈥檚 Middle District public school science classrooms.
Miller is also the author of the acclaimed book聽Finding Darwin鈥檚 God: A Scientist鈥檚 Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution, a lively and cutting-edge analysis of the key issues that seem to divide science and religion. He contends that, properly understood, evolution adds depth and meaning not only to a strictly scientific view of the world, but also to a spiritual one.
Miller is a firm believer in evolution, he is one of America鈥檚 foremost experts on the subject, but he also believes in God 鈥� and he doesn鈥檛 think the two beliefs to be mutually exclusive.
Bruce Alberts, the president of the National Academy of Sciences, says that Miller 鈥渃onvincingly argues that science and religion offer different, but compatible, ways of viewing the world.鈥� Miller has written major articles for numerous scientific journals and magazines, including聽Nature,听Scientific American,听Cell, and聽Discover. He has also appeared on PBS as a scientific commentator. In 2008, Miller delivered the keynote address at TikTok成人版鈥檚 Mendel Symposium entitled, 鈥淢endel in the 21st Century: The Scientific, Social, and Ethical Impact of Genetics in Our World.鈥� His talk was titled, 鈥淐onfronting Paley鈥檚 Ghost: Charles Darwin and the Evolutionary Design of Life.鈥�
Coyne, born January 19, 1933, in Baltimore, Maryland, completed his bachelor's degree in mathematics and his licentiate in philosophy at Fordham University, New York City, in 1958. He obtained his doctorate in astronomy from Georgetown University in 1962. In 1976 he became a senior research fellow at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) of the University of Arizona (UA) and a lecturer in the UA Department of Astronomy. The following year he served as Director of the UA's Catalina Observatory and as Associate Director of the LPL. Coyne became Director of the Vatican Observatory Research Group in 1978, and also Associate Director of the UA Steward Observatory.
During 1979-80 heserved as Acting Director and Head of the UA Steward Observatory and the Astronomy Department, and thereafter he continued as an adjunct professor in the UA Astronomy Department. He retired as Director of the VO in August 2006. He remains on the staff of the VO as Director Emeritus and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. A memberof the Society of Jesus since the age of 18, he completed the licentiate in sacred theology at Woodstock College, Woodstock, Maryland, and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1965.
Coyne's research interests have been in polarimetric studies of varioussubjects including the interstellar medium, stars with extendedatmospheres and Seyfert galaxies, which are a group of spiral galaxieswith very small and unusually bright star like centers. (Polarimetry isthe technique of measuring or analyzing the polarization of light. Whenlight rays exhibit different properties in different directions, thelight is said to be polarized.) Most recently he has been studying thepolarization produced in cataclysmic variables, or interacting binarystar systems that give off sudden bursts of intense energy, and dustabout young stars.
He is a member of the International Astronomical Union, the AmericanAstronomical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. He hasbeen awarded the following Ph.D. degrees honoris causa: 1980, St.Peter's University, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; 1994, LoyolaUniversity, Chicago, USA; 1995, University of Padua, Padua, Italy;1997, Pontifical Theological Academy, Jagellonian University, Cracow;2005 Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; 2007 BostonCollege, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce that Margaret Dalzell Lowman, Ph.D. (known affectionately as 鈥淐anopy Meg鈥�), director of environmental initiatives and professor of biology and environmental studies at聽New College of Florida聽in Sarasota, has been named the 2007 recipient of the聽Mendel Medal. Dr. Lowman delivered the annual聽Mendel Medal聽public lecture and was awarded the聽Mendel Medal聽on Saturday, April 28, on TikTok成人版鈥檚 campus.
The public lecture, entitled, 鈥淚t鈥檚 a Jungle Up There: Integrating Research and Education Through Canopy Ecology,鈥� took place at 2:30 p.m. in the Connelly Center Cinema on TikTok成人版鈥檚 campus. During the well-attended lecture, Dr. Lowman discussed her lifelong work in pioneering canopy access, integrating research with education and conservation, and developing a family conservation ethic, her 鈥淣o Child Left Indoors鈥� initiative. Throughout her talk, Dr. Lowman weaved stories of her work in ecology together with her memories of her children who accompanied her on many of her international field work expeditions. At the end of her book,听Life in the Treetops, Dr. Lowman writes: 鈥淥ne of the most meaningful insights that I have acquired along my life鈥檚 journey is that it takes the same amount of energy to complain as it does to exclaim 鈥� but the results are incredibly different. Learning to exclaim instead of to complain has been my most valuable life lesson."
Dr. Lowman鈥檚 expertise involves canopy ecology, particularly plant-insect relationships, and spans more than 25 years in Australia, Peru, Africa, the Americas, and the South Pacific. Internationally recognized for her pioneering research in canopy ecology, she has authored more than 95 peer-reviewed publications and three books. Dr. Lowman also served first as Director of Research and Conservation, and then Chief Executive Officer, of聽Selby Botanical Gardens, an institution that specializes in tropical plants, especially epiphytes.
Under her leadership, the Gardens expanded membership by 45 percent, fund-raising by more than 100 percent, and doubled both research and education programs. After 11 years of service, Dr. Lowman left Selby Gardens to devote more time to her passion: science education.
鈥淒r. Lowman鈥檚 work in canopy ecology demonstrates the complexity and importance of plant-insect relationship in the tops of tropical trees and reflects the awe she feels at the wonder of creation,鈥� said the Rev. Kail C. Ellis, O.S.A., Ph.D., dean of the聽College of Liberal Arts and Sciencesat TikTok成人版. 鈥淒r. Lowman is an outstanding teacher and researcher, and her work in environmental science and conservation outreach will continue to play an important role in education and for everyone concerned with the future of our planet.鈥�
Prior to joining Selby Gardens, Lowman was a professor in biology and environmental studies at聽Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., where she pioneered temperate forest canopy research and built the first canopy walkway in North America. Working in Australia on forest ecology, she was instrumental in determining the causes of the eucalypt dieback syndrome that destroyed millions of trees in rural Australia, assisted with conservation programs for tree regeneration, and ran a successful ecotourism business in the outback. For more than 20 years, she studied studying mechanisms of tropical diversity in Australian rain forests with Joseph Connell (University of California, Santa Barbara).
Dr. Lowman has developed an expertise for the use of different canopy access techniques, including ropes, walkways, hot air balloons, construction cranes, and combinations of these methods. She frequently speaks about her jungle adventures and rain forest conservation efforts to educational groups, ranging from elementary classes to corporate executives and scientists at international conferences. She received the Margaret Douglas Medal for Achievement in Conservation Education from the Garden Club of America (1999) and The Eugene Odum Prize for Excellence in Ecology Education from the Ecological Society of America (2002). She serves on the Board of Directors for the Explorers Club and is part of the senior management team of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) for the National Science Foundation. Dr. Lowman鈥檚 latest book,听Life in the Treetops, received a cover review in the聽New York Times Sunday Book Review. In this autobiography, Dr. Lowman describes 鈥� with scientific accuracy and humor 鈥� her adventures studying rain forest canopies while juggling family and career in some of the most remote jungles of the world.
Dr. Lowman received a B.A. with honors in biology and environmental studies from聽Williams College聽(1976), a master of science in ecology from聽Aberdeen University聽(1978), and a Ph.D. in botany from the聽University of Sydney聽(1983).
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Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to treating some of the world's poorest populations, in the process helping to raise the standard of health care in underdeveloped areas of the world. A founding director of聽Partners in Health, an international charity organization that provides direct health careservices and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf ofthose who are sick and living in poverty, Dr. Farmer and his colleagueshave successfully challenged the policymakers and critics who claimthat quality health care is impossible to deliver in resource-poorareas.
Paul Farmer has worked in infectious-disease control in the Americas for nearly two decades and is a world-renowned authority ontuberculosis treatment and control. His work draws primarily on active clinical practice (Dr. Farmer is an attending physician in infectious diseases and Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and medical director of a small hospital, the Clinique Bon Sauveur, in rural Haiti) and focuses on diseases that disproportionately afflict the poor. Along with his colleagues at the Brigham and in the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Farmer has pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies for infectious diseases (including HIV/AIDS and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis) inresource-poor settings. He has also written extensively about healthand human rights, and about the role of social inequalities in the distribution and outcomes of readily treatable diseases. His work in Haiti has taught him that poverty, inequality, and political turmoillead inevitably to poor health outcomes among the vulnerable, and this belief fuels his scholarly, clinical, advocacy, and charitable activities.
Paul Farmer began his lifelong commitment to Haiti when still astudent, in 1983, working with villages in Haiti's Central Plateau; thefollowing year he began medical school at Harvard, and two years laterhelped found Zanmi Lastane (Creole for Partners In Health), serving asits medical director from 1991 to the present. Boston-based Partners InHealth was founded in 1987. Zanmi Lasante -- which has grown from aone-building clinic in the village of Cange to a multiservice healthcomplex that includes a primary school, an infirmary, a surgery wing, atraining program for health outreach workers, a 104-bed hospital, awomen's clinic, and a pediatric care facility -- has pioneered thetreatment of both multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV in Haiti.This role was key in helping Haiti qualify in 2002 among the firstgroup of countries awarded money from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,Tuberculosis, and Malaria; Haiti was actually the first country in theworld to receive these funds and begin employing them to fight disease.A ringing endorsement of Partners In Health's community-based approachto health care, the award has allowed Zanmi Lasante to expand itstreatment facilities into neighboring communities, where it is the onlyhealth-care provider for hundreds of thousands of peasant farmers in the Central Plateau -- and a model for poor communities world wide. InCange alone, the small medical staff often sees over 300 patients aday, close to 220,000 patients each year.
With colleagues in Haiti and Peru, Dr. Farmer has helped lead theinternational response to mutlidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB),later found to be endemic in the former Soviet Union, by establishingpilot MDR-TB treatment programs and organizing effective deliverysystems for medications. Working closely with the Open SocietyInstitute, he has participated in evaluations of TB treatment programsin Russia, Peru, Azerbaijan, Latvia, Kazakhstan, with a specialinterest in TB among prison populations. Dr. Farmer was instrumental inestablishing the World Health Organization's Working Group on MDR-TBand has been a member of DOTS-Plus Working Group for the GlobalTuberculosis Programme of the World Health Organization; Chief Advisorof Tuberculosis Programs of the Open Society Institute; Chief MedicalConsultant for the Tuberculosis Treatment Project in the Prisons ofTomsk (Siberia); and a member of the Scientific Committee of the WHOWorking Group on DOTS-Plus for MDR-TB. He has served on the ScientificReview board of ten of the last international conferences on AIDS, andhas been a leading voice on behalf of HIV/AIDS and MDR-TB patientsacross the world.
Author or co-author of over 100 scholarly publications, his researchand writing stem in large part from work in Haiti and Peru, and fromclinical and teaching activities. He is the author of the recentlypublished聽Pathologies of Power聽(University of California Press, 2003);聽Infections and Inequalities聽(University of California Press, 1998);聽The Uses of Haiti聽(Common Courage Press, 1994); and聽AIDS and Accusation聽(University of California Press, 1992). In addition, he is co-editor of聽Women, Poverty and AIDS聽(Common Courage Press, 1996) and of聽The Global Impact of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis聽(Harvard Medical School and Open Society Institute, 1999).
Currently Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in theDepartment of Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, Dr. Farmerhas both taught in and served as a course director for social-medicinecourses in the Department. He also trains medical students, residents,and fellows at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He has been a visitingprofessor at institutions throughout the U.S. as well as in France,Canada, Peru, the Netherlands, Russia, and Central Asia.
Among the numerous awards Dr. Farmer has received in the last decadeare the Duke University Humanitarian Award, the Margaret Mead Awardfrom the American Anthropological Association, and the American MedicalAssociation's International Physician (Nathan Davis) Award. In 1993, hewas awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "geniusaward" in recognition of his work. Perhaps no award so typifies PaulFarmer's life and accomplishments, however, as the Heinz Award for theHuman Condition, which he received in 2003. "To say that Dr. PaulFarmer is a life saver does not begin to describe the impact of hiswork," said Teresa Heinz, chairman of the Heinz Family Foundation. "Dr.Farmer and his extraordinary organization have been a force in makingthe world confront the health care needs of those who historically havenever had access to proper care. Because of his dedication andcompassion, critical health care services are now being administeredaround the globe to people who previously would have been leftuntreated."
In his acceptance of the Heinz Award, Paul Farmer reminded us allthat "as members of the world community, we must recognize that we canand should summon our collective resources to save the countless livesthat were previously alleged to be beyond our help." He believes we cando no less than this.
Dr. Farmer received his Bachelor's degree in 1982 from DukeUniversity, and his M.D. and Ph.D. (in Anthropology) simultaneously in1990 from Harvard University.
Holmes Rolston is a University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, 1997/1998, published as聽Genes, Genesis and God聽(Cambridge University Press, 1999). A philosopher praised the work as "a long song in praise of self-transcending creativity" and found "the book itself a magnificent example of creativity" (Frederick Ferr). A molecular biologist found it "a real masterpiece. The author's grasp of biology is mind-blowing."
Dr. Rolston was the Templeton Prize laureate in 2003. The award, presented to him by Prince Philip in Buckingham Palace, is larger in monetary value than a Nobel Prize. Dr. Rolston donated the proceeds to his alma mater, Davidson College, to endow a chair in science and religion.
Dr. Rolston is widely respected for his work in the dialogue between science and religion, especially in his reconciling of evolutionary natural history and monotheism. His聽Science and Religion: A Critical Survey聽(Random House, 1987), was a ground-breaking work. He has repeatedly addressed the question of struggle and evil in nature, finding a "cruciform creation." In a prize-winning article, he asks:聽"Does Nature Need to be Redeemed?"聽Life is generated and regenerated in the midst of its perpetual perishing. He is a founding member of the honorary International Society for Science and Religion.
Dr. Rolston is also known as "the father of environmental ethics," for his defense of intrinsic value in nature and of caring for creation. He is featured in聽Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment聽(Joy A. Palmer, ed., Routledge, 2001), also profiled in聽American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present聽(ABC-Clio, 2000), and in聽Encyclopedia Britannica, 2004 Book of the Year. His聽Environmental Ethics聽remains a founding book in the field.
Dr. Rolston was awarded Doctor of Letters by Davidson College in 2002. He has authored or edited six books and over one hundred articles in books and professional journals, with his work reprinted over one hundred times and in over a dozen languages. He has lectured on all seven continents; his research has been used in classes at over three hundred colleges and universities. In 2005-2006 he will be Visiting Distinguished Professor of Bioethics at Yale University.
Ralph Hirschmann is the Rao Makineni Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. He has made seminal contributions to organic, medicinal and bioorganic chemistry for over fifty years. A naturalized American citizen, born in Bavaria, Germany, he came to the US in his teens and earned a B.A. degree from Oberlin College in 1943. Following three years of military service during World War II, he entered graduate school at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), where he received a Ph.D. degree under the mentorship of Professor William S. Johnson in 1950.
Dr. Hirschmann joined the Merck Research Laboratories in 1950 as a process research chemist and retired in 1987, having served as Senior Vice President of Chemistry and of Basic Research. During his tenure, his team discovered and/or developed several major drugs including Vasotec, Lisinopril, Primaxin, Ivomec, Mevacor and Proscar. Early in his career (1952), he discovered the steroidal C-nor-D-homo rearrangement. During the 1960s, with Robert G. Denkewalter, he directed the first solution total synthesis of an enzyme, ribonuclease S (RNase S).
In 1987, Dr. Hirschmann started a second career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he initiated collaborative research in the field of peptidomimetics. The collaborations with biologists in the pharmaceutical industry were critical for the success of this research. The Penn teams have published 63 papers, mostly describing new approaches to the design of peptidomimetics and (with Benkovic) of haptens for the generation of catalytic antibodies.
Dr. Hirschmann has been recognized with three honorary degrees and three endowed lectureships; three chairs are linked to his name. He has received recognition through many awards including the Merck & Co. Inc. Board of Directors Scientific Award and the National Academy of Sciences Award for the Industrial Application of Science. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Senior Fellow of the Institutes of Medicine of the National Academies, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Janet Rowley has contributed significantly to advances in understanding of genetic changes in cancer. She focused on chromosome abnormalities in human leukemia and lymphoma and in 1972, using new techniques of chromosome identification, she discovered the first consistent chromosome translocation in any human cancer. During her career she has identified more than a dozen different recurring translocations. These discoveries have revolutionized the view of hematologists/oncologists and cancer biologists regarding the critical importance of recurring chromosome abnormalities in cancer cells. Moreover, she showed that many different tumors were each associated with specific cytogenetic abnormalities that reflect critical genetics changes in the malignant cells of that tumor. Her early insights have culminated in the work of others leading to specific treatments for two of the translocations she discovered namely, all trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) for the 15;17 translocation inacute promyelocytic leukemia and STI571 (GLEEVAC) for the 9;22 translocation in chronic myelogenous leukemia. In addition, collaborating with hematologists, she showed that recurring chromosome abnormalities in acute leukemia were the most important prognostic indicators of a patient's response to treatment and survival. She and her colleagues have cloned a number of different translocations breakpoints, providing insights into the identity of new genes involved in leukemia.
Dr. Rowley continues to open up new areas of research and make landmark contributions to cancer biology, diagnosis, and treatment today. Her rapid application of the recently developed technique of spectral karyotyping (1996), has resolved new chromosomal rearrangements associated with leukemias opening up yet another series of discoveries. Her most recent foray is into the analysis of genome-wide gene expression in hematopoietic cells. Her colleagues have modified existing techniques and have combined them in unique ways to be able to detect the multitude of genes expressed at fewer than 3 to 5 copies per cell. At present her group has completed gene expression analysis of normal myeloid cells as well as B and T cells at various stages of differentiation. These data will provide the benchmark against which to compare identical analyses of gene expression in a series of myeloid and lymphoid leukemias with different translocations. This research will help to identify the additional genetic changes that clearly collaborate with the fusion genes to produce a fully leukemic cell.
Dr. Rowley has received numerous awards including Dameshek Prize (1982), Kuwait Cancer prize (1984), Karnofsky Prize (1987), Prix Antoine Lacassagne (1987), King Faisal Prize (1988), Clowes Award (1989), Mott Prize (1989), Allen Award (1991), Gairdner Award (1996), Medal of Honor, ACS (1996), Lasker Award (1998), Medal of Science (1998), and American Academy of Achievement (1999). She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1984), Institute of Medicine (1985), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991), and American Philosophical Society (1993.) She has received seven honorary degrees including one from Oxford in June 2000. Along with her friend, Felix Mitelman, she cofounded and is coeditor of聽Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer, the premier cancer cytogenetic journal worldwide.
Ruth Patrick was born in Topeka, Kansas and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. She received her Masters degree and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. She is presently Honorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia and she is occupant of the Francis Boyer Chair of Limnology. She founded the Limnology Department (now known as the Environmental Research Division) at the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1947 and remained its Chair until 1973. She is Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Patrick has held many positions in connection with her scientific work; for example, she was President of the Psychological Society of America, 1954-57 and President of the American Society of Naturalists, 1975-77. She has also received many awards, among the best known are the Merit Award of the Botanical Society of America, 1971; the Eminent Ecologist Award of the Ecological Society of America, 1972; the Philadelphia Award which she received in 1973; the John and Alice Tyler Ecology Award in 1975; the Gold Medal of the Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Belgium, 1978; and the Governor of Pennsylvania Science Award, 1988. She also received the Award of Excellence of the North American Benthological Society, 1992; the Benjamin Franklin Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement from the American Philosophical Society, 1993; induction into the South Carolina Hall of Science 1996; and the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. Most recently she was recipient of the National Medal of Science from President Bill Clinton in 1996 and the Governor of South Carolina Award in 1999.
Dr. Patrick has received 25 honorary degrees. Among these are Doctor of Science degree from Princeton University, 1980; from Lehigh University, 1983; from the University of Pennsylvania, 1984; Temple University, 1985; University of South Carolina, 1989; and Glassboro College of New Jersey, 1992.
Dr. Patrick has served on a great many state and national committees. Among these she was a member of President Johnson's Science Advisory Committee on Algal Blooms, 1966; Chair of the Panel on Pollution Control of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., 1966; a member of the Committee of Science and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences, 1973-75; Chairman of the Section on Population Biology, Evolution and Ecology, National Academy of Science, 1980-83; a member of President Reagan's Peer Review Committee on Acid Rain. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences together with many other scientific organizations.
Dr. Patrick has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of many institutions including the Academy of Natural Sciences where she was chairman of the Board and CEO. She has served on the Board of Trustees of E.I. DuPont Company and of Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. At present she is a member of the National Council of the World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.; the National Council of the World Wildlife Fund/Conservation Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and the Board of the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, Washington, D.C. Her field of research is focused on biodiversity of rivers and how these ecosystems function under various natural and polluted conditions and on the ecology and systematics of diatoms.
Dr. Patrick is the author of numerous books and over 180 scientific journal publications.
Michael E. DeBakey is a world-renowned pioneer of modern medicine. A prodigious medical inventor, gifted teacher, and outstanding surgeon, Dr. DeBakey is currently Chancellor Emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. DeBakey untiringly pursues new avenues in which modern technology can be applied to the practice of healing and saving lives. He is credited with inventing and perfecting scores of medical devices, techniques and procedures. Currently, he is working with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to develop a self-contained, miniaturized artificial heart. His DeBakey-Raytheon-ITS telemedicine system uses satellites to electronically link remote sites of the world to the famed Texas medical center for medical training and treatment.
Dr. DeBakey is credited with inventing and perfecting scores of medical devices, techniques and procedures. His pioneering work includes developing Dacron arteries, arterial bypass operations, artificial hearts, heart pumps and heart transplants which are now common procedures in today's medicine. Additionally, he is credited with developing the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (M.A.S.H.) concepts for the military, which has led to saving thousands of lives during the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. The development of specialized medical and surgical center systems, in order to treat returning military personnel, subsequently became the Veterans Administration Medical Center System.
Dr. DeBakey has served as an advisor to nearly every United States president for the past 50 years, as well as to the heads of state throughout the world. His 1996 trip to Russia to consult on the surgery of Russian president Boris Yeltsin was reported by every major news medial outlet around the world. Dr. DeBakey's efforts helped establish the National Library of Medicine, which is now the world's largest and the most prestigious repository of medical archives.
Dr. DeBakey has performed more than 60,000 cardiovascular procedures and has trained thousands of surgeons who practice around the world. In 1976, his students founded the Michael E. DeBakey International Surgical Society. His name is affixed to a number of organizations, centers for learning, and projects devoted to medical education and health education for the general public.
Dr. DeBakey is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees from prestigious colleges and universities, as well as innumerable awards from educational institutions, professional and civic organizations, and governments worldwide. In 1969, Dr. DeBakey received the highest honor a United States citizen can receive -- the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. In 1987, he was awarded the National Medal of Science and in 1999, Dr. DeBakey was one of eight individuals chosen to commemorate the United Nations' International Day for Tolerance and received the prestigious UN Lifetime Achievement Award. The following year, Dr. DeBakey was similarly recognized by the U.S. Library of Congress; which designated him a Living Legend.
Dr. Peter Doherty is the Chairman of the Department of Immunology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (SJCRH) a nonprofit research hospital dedicated to the treatment of children from all over the world with catastrophic diseases. He also holds the position of professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Tennessee, Memphis, Health Sciences Center.
Dr. Doherty is a recipient of the Paul Ehrlich Prize, Germany (1983); Gairdner International Award for Medical Science (1986); Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award (1995); Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1996); is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (1987); and was elected foreign associate to the National Academy of Sciences (1998).
He qualified in veterinary medicine from the University of Queensland, Australia in 1966. He then obtained his Ph.D. in Pathology from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 1970.
Dr. Doherty has authored and/or collaborated on more than 300 research papers and book chapters dealing in large part with T cell immunity in virus infections. He has served on several editorial boards for a number of scientific journals and review publications.
Dr. Charles H. Townes, who received the Nobel Prize in 1964 for his role in the invention of the maser and the laser, is presently a Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, and engaged in a research in astrophysics. He is known for a variety of researches involving the interaction of electromagnetic waves and matter, and also as teacher and government advisor.
Born July 28, 1915 in Greenville, South Carolina, Dr. Townes graduated with highest honors from Furman University in 1935, earning a bachelor of science degree in physics and a bachelor of arts degree in modern languages. He completed a master's degree at Duke University and in 1939 received the Ph.D. degree at the California Institute of Technology. He was a staff member of the Bell Telephone Laboratories 1939-1947, Associate Professor and Professor at Columbia University 1948-1961, Vice President and Director of Research at the Institute for Defense Analysis 1959-1961, Provost and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1961-1965, and became University Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.
Dr. Townes's principal scientific work is in microwave spectroscopy, nuclear and molecular structure, quantum electronics, radio astronomy, and infrared astronomy; he is presently most active in the latter two fields. He has the fundamental patent on masers, and with A.L.Schawlow, the basic patent on lasers. In addition to the Nobel Prize, he has received a number of awards and honors, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences and in the Royal Society of London, the National Academy of Sciences' Comstock Prize and the John J. Carty Medal, the Rumford Premium of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Stuart Ballentine Medal of the Franklin Institute (twice), and the C.E.K. Mees Medal of the Optical Society of America, and the Medal of Honor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Plyler Prize of the American Physical Society, NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Thomas Young Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics and the Physical Society (England), the Wilhelm Exner Award (Austria), the 1979 Niels Bohr International Gold Medal, membership in the National Inventors Hall of Fame, South Carolina Hall of Fame, Engineering and Science Hall of Fame, the National Medal of Science, as well as honorary degrees from twenty-five colleges and universities.
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D, is a physician-geneticist and the Director of the National Center for the Human Genome Research. In that role he oversees a fifteen year project aimed at mapping and sequencing all of the human DNA by the year 2005. Many consider this the most important scientific undertaking of our time. The project is currently running ahead of schedule and under budget.
Dr. Collins was raised on a small farm in Virginia and home-schooled until the sixth grade. He obtained his undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Virginia, and went on to obtain a Ph.D in physical chemistry at Yale University. Recognizing that a revolution was beginning in molecular biology and genetics, he changed fields and enrolled in medical school at the University of North Carolina, where he encountered the field of medical genetics and knew he had found his dream. After a residency and chief residency in internal medicine in Chapel Hill, he returned to Yale for a fellowship in human genetics, where he worked on methods of crossing large stretches of DNA to identify disease genes. He continued to develop these ideas after joining the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1984. This approach, for which he later coined the term positional cloning, has developed into a powerful component of modern molecular genetics, as it allows the identification of disease genes for almost any condition, without knowing ahead of time what the functional abnormality might be.
Together with Lap-Chee Tsui and Jack Riordan of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, Dr. Collins's research team identified the gene for cystic fibrosis using this strategy in 1989. That was followed by his group's identification of the neurofibromatosis gene in 1990, and a successful collaborative effort to identify the gene for Huntington's disease in 1993. That same year, Dr. Collins accepted an invitation to become the second director of the National Center for Human Genome Research, following in the footsteps of James Watson. In that role, Dr. Collins has overseen the successful completion of several of the Genome Project's goals, and now the full ramp-up of the sequencing component is underway.
In addition, Dr. Collins founded a new NIH intramural research program in genome research, which has now grown to become one of the premier research units in human genetics in the country. His own research laboratory continues to be vigorously active, exploring the molecular genetics of breast cancer, prostate cancer, adult-onset diabetes and other disorders. His accomplishments have been recognized by election to the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, and numerous national and international awards. TikTok成人版 is proud to have Dr. Collins as its 1998 Mendel Medal awardee.
Peter H. Raven is Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Engelmann Professor of Botany of Washington University. He is a native of California and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1960, after completing his undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds honorary degrees from several universities, including the Universities of Massachusetts and Goteborg, Sweden, as well as Rutgers, Leiden and Washington Universities. Dr. Raven is Home Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Report Review Committee of the National Reserach Council and a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology.
In 1986, he received the International Prize for Biology from the government of Japan, in 1990 shared with E.O. Wilson the Prize of the Institut de la Sweden, in 1994 shared with Arturo Gomez-Popma the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, and in 1995 shared with Canaganayagan Suriyakumaran and Norman Meyers the Sasakawa Environment Prize. From 1985 to 1990 he was a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and several foreign academies of science, including the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he has served as a member of the Board of Curators of the University of Missouri and a member of the National Science Board.
Before coming to St. Louis in 1971, Dr. Raven was a member of the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. He spent the academic year 1969-1970 in New Zealand as a Guggenheim fellow. He is past president of a number of groups, including the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Organization for Tropical Studies, and the Botanical Society of America, served as Chairman of the National Museum Services Board, and Chairman of the National Research Council Committee on the National Biological Survey. In addition, Dr. Raven is a member of the Committee on Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society, Co-chair of the Editorial Committee of the Flora of China project, and Chairman of the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union. He is the author or editor of 18 books, including textbooks in biology and botany, and more than 450 scientific papers.
Since moving to St. Louis, Dr. Raven has been concerned with the development of the Garden's research program in tropical botany, which has become one of the most active in the world. In addition, he has continued his work with graduate students and his research on Onagraceae. He is active in efforts to enhance public awareness of the ecological crisis in the tropics, and the need for preservation of plants and animals throughout the world.
Maxine Singer received the Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry in 1957 from Yale University. Her interest in nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) began during her post-doctoral work in Leon Heppel's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health and has never flagged. Until 1975, she was a Research Biochemist in the Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, NIH. During that period she worked on the synthesis and structure of RNA and applied this experience to the work that elucidated the genetic code. She described and studied enzymes that degraded RNA in bacteria. By 1970 she became interested in animal viruses and took a sabbatical leave in the laboratory of Ernest Winocour (1971-1972) at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. There she began work on aspects of simian virus 40.
Moving to the National Cancer Institute in 1975, she continued this work studying defective SV40 viruses whose genomes contain regions of DNA from the host monkey cells. She also carried out investigations on interaction between histone H1 and DNA as it relates to the structure of chromatin. In the same year she served on the organizing committee for the Asilomar Meeting on Recombinant DNA molecules, the first public discussion of the implication of these new methods. The work on defective SV40 led to an interest in highly repeated DNA sequences in primate, including human genomes. This led in turn, to the discovery of a transposable element (jumping gene) in human DNA, the topic that is now the subject of her research. Looking back, Dr. Singer's scientific interests have evolved from an emphasis on chemistry to an increasing interest in biological phenomena. Her current research aims to elucidate the mechanism whereby the only known human transposable element replicates and disperses copies to the new genomic locations, a process which can be mutagenic.
In 1988 she became President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, retaining her laboratory and the title Scientist Emeritus at the NIH. At Carnegie she has renewed her interest in the range of sciences investigated at the Institution's departments: earth science, astronomy, plant and developmental biology. She has also initiated programs designed to improve scientific understanding by the general public including the training of elementary school teachers and a Saturday program for children--First Light.
A member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of the USA and its Institute of Medicine, Dr. Singer served as chairman of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Previously she served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biological Chemistry and Science magazines.
Dr. Singer was a fellow (trustee) of the Yale Corporation (1975-1990), is a member of Governing Board of the Weizmann Institute of Science and co-chairman of its Scientific and Academic Advisory Committee, and is also a member of the Board of Johnson & Johnson.
In 1988, Dr. Singer received the Distinguished Presidential Rank Award, the highest honor given to a civil servant, and in 1992 she received the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor bestowed by the President of the United States "for her outstanding scientific accomplishments and her deep concern for the societal responsibility of the scientist."
Dr. Victor A. McKusick is University Professor of Medical Genetics at The Johns Hopkins University and Physician at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his M.D. degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1946, where he has been a member of the faculty continuously since 1947. Previously, he served as Director of the Division of Medical Genetics, The William Osler Professor and Director of the Department of Medicine, and Physician-in-Chief at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. McKusick is widely credited with placing genetics in the mainstream of clinical medicine. Among his most noteworthy contributions to the field of medical genetics--the study and management of inherited diseases and predispositions--is his concept of Mendelian disorders in connective tissues. His special interest in mapping gene locations on chromosomes and relating those gene locations to human disease was spurred when, as a young cardiologist, he had a number of patients with Marfan syndrome, an inherited disorder in which the aorta becomes dialated and sufficiently weakened to allow an aneurysm to develop. In Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissues, first published in 1956 (5th edition 1993), he brought together for the first time scattered information about this broad class of disorders.
Dr. McKusick's contributions to the field of cardiology are incorporated in his monograph Cardiovascular Sound in Health and Disease (1958). By adapting the sound spectography method of the Bell Telephone Laboratory, which he called spectral phonocardiography, he discovered that he was able to describe heart sounds and murmers in more detail than had previously (or since) been possible.
Dr. McKusick's work in inbred communities, especially the Old Order Amish, as sources for the detection of rare recessive disorders, contributed significantly to the delineation and classification of genetic disease. This aspect of his work was incorporated in what has become known as "McKusick's Catalog," the encyclopedic Mendelian Inheritance in Man: Catalogs of Autosomal Dominant, Autosomal Recessive, and X-linked Phenotypes, first published in 1956 and containing over 3,600 entries (10th edition 1992).
Dr. McKusick is a founder and first president (1988-1990) of the Human Genome Organization [HUGO], which was established to encourage and coordinate international cooperation in the effort to map and sequence the human genome. The capabilities that arise out of that project will be a resource for studies of gene structure and function and will promote research into the genetic aspects of human disease. Mapping the human genome will increase our ability to predict, understand, and eventually prevent or cure human disease.
Dr. McKusick is a member of several scientific, professional and learned societies. Among these are the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association of American Physicians, the American Clinical and Climatological Association, the American Society of Human Genetics, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians of London. He is the recipient of several honorary degrees and his other awards include the Gairdner International Award for contributions to the development of the field of clinical genetics, the William A. Allan Award of the American Society of Human Genetics, the James Luck Award of the National Academy of Sciences, the San Remo International Prize for Genetic Research Medal of the Comune di Genova, the Silver Medal of the University of Helsinki, and the Silver Columbus. The author or co-author of some fifteen classic reference works in medical genetics, he is also the editor-in-chief of Medicine and co-editor-in-chief of Genomics, as well as an associate editor of several other publications.
Dr. Phillip A. Sharp is currently Salvador E Lauria Professor and Head of the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a position he assumed on July 1, 1991. He joined the Center for Cancer Research and Department of Biology at MIT in 1974, becoming Associate Director in 1982 and Director in 1985.
Dr. Sharp obtained a B.A. in chemistry and mathematics from Union College, Kentucky, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. During his post-doctoral fellowship at California Institute of Technology, he studied the molecular biology of plasmids from bacteria in Professor Norman Davidson's laboratory. In 1971, Dr. Sharp moved to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to begin studies on the molecular biology of animal viruses and mammalian cells. His interests have centered on the molecular biology of tumor viruses and the mechanisms of RNA splicing. Dr. Sharp's most noted achievement was the discovery of RNA splicing in 1977.
Dr. Sharp is the recipient of numerous awards. In 1980 he received both the Eli Lilly Award in molecular biology and the U.S. Steel Award from the National Academy of Sciences. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1983 and elected Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 1989. In 1986, he received the Gairdner Foundation International Award, was nominated Councilor of NAS, and, the following year, was elected Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences. In 1991, he was elected member of the American Philosophical Society and member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Among Dr. Sharp's other awards are the John D. MacArthur Professorship (1987-1992), the first Salvador E. Lauria Professorship (1992- ), the New York Academy of Sciences Award in Biological and Medical Sciences, the General Motors Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize for Cancer Research, the 1988 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award and the 1990 Dickson Prize from the University of Pittsburgh. He has served on numerous committees and professional societies and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Virology and Molecular Cell Biology. He currently serves on the editorial board of Cell.
Dr. Sharp has over 240 career publications in peer reviewed scientific journals and periodicals as well as numerous book chapters in edited works. He has held lectureships at various universities and continues to teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also co-founder and Chairman of the Scientific Board of Biogen, Inc., and a member of its Board of Directors.
On November 4, 1968, a distinguished TikTok成人版 alumnus, Alfred M. Bongiovanni M.D., was awarded the Mendel Medal. Dr. Bongiovanni is an internationally recognized specialist in glands and growth problems in children. He is Physician-in-Chief at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the William H. Bennett Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He has for many years explored the role of glands in growth and ways of correcting abnormal growth patterns.
Born forty-seven years ago in Philadelphia, Dr. Bongiovanni received his B.S. degree in 1940 from TikTok成人版 College and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1943. He received additional training in Pediatric Endocrinology at Johns Hopkins, where he served for a time as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics.
Dr. Bongiovanni's chief contribution is in the field of endocrinology. This is the branch of medicine concerned with glands of internal secretion - the thyroid, the pituitary, the adrenal, the pancreas, and the sex glands. Dr. Bongiovanni's work dealt with pinpointing the series of steps that take place in the body in the process of manufacturing substances necessary to life and growth; specifically, the making of hormones by the adrenal glands. When one step is missing in this process, any number of detrimental effects can occur, such as abnormally high blood pressure, abnormally rapid rate of growth in the first five years of life followed in the same child by a sudden and permanent stoppage of growth, sudden collapse and death. Dr. Bongiovanni and his colleague, Dr. Walter Eberlein, defined these "missing" steps and devised tests to pinpoint where the breakdown occurred in order that appropriate treatment could be applied. These tests are now in use throughout the world.
Aware that endocrine and metabolic disorders are among the major diseases confronting pediatricians today, and recognizing Dr. Bongiovanni's invaluable contributions to the treatment of these illnesses, several organizations have honored him.
Among the many tributes bestowed on Dr. Bongiovanni have been the Ciba Award in 1956, the highest award given by the Endocrine Society to an investigator; in 1957, with Dr. Eberlein, he was given the E. Mead Johnson Award for Research in Pediatrics, again the highest honor bestowed by that society to an investigator. Dr. Bongiovanni was recipient of the 1965 Shaffrey Award given by the St. Joseph's College Medical Alumni Association.
As a result of the work of Dr. Bongiovanni and that of other members of the Children's Hospital staff, many children throughout the world whose growth and sexual maturation would otherwise have been permanently impaired, are growing normally and will be able to achieve parenthood.
Dr. Charles A. Hufnagel, Professor of Surgery at Georgetown University, is one of America's most gifted surgeons and a pioneer in the surgical treatment of heart and great vessel disorders.
He is a native of Louisville, Ky., where he grew up in an atmosphere of science: his father, Dr. Charles J. Hufnagel, was a physician.
TikTok成人版's 1965 Mendel Medalist attended the University of Notre Dame, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree. In 1941 he received his Medical degree at Harvard.
Dr. Hufnagel began his surgical career in 1942, when he was appointed House Officer in Surgery at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital. He continued his association with Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard's Medical School until 1950, when he was appointed Professor of Surgical Research and Director of the Experimental Laboratory at Georgetown.
During the past twenty years, Dr. Hufnagel has distinguished himself as a scientist and surgeon. Shortly after World War II he made the first successful graft of a rigid tube, fashioned from lucite, in a blood vessel. In 1952 he performed the first successful insertion of a plastic valve in a human heart. It demonstrated for the first time the possibility of a functionally moving artificial body part. Further experiments have demonstrated a safe method for prolonged cardiac arrest which permits the placing in its normal position of an aortic valve prosthesis.
Dr. Hufnagel, 47, has performed countless operations in which portions of diseased arteries are replaced with plastic substitutes. He and his surgical team have developed a new heart and lung pump for open heart surgery and a heat exchanger by which the blood of the patient can be heated or cooled. Surgical techniques developed by TikTok成人版's Mendel Medal winner are in use throughout the world and his contributions have greatly influenced the progress of medicine. In addition, his rare skills as a surgeon have given precious added years of life to persons seriously crippled by diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
In 1961 Dr. Hufnagel was named by his medical colleagues as one of ten leaders of American medicine. He was the only surgeon among the group.
Dr. Hufnagel and his wife, the former Katherine Moulton, have two daughters, Katherine Lucina, 20, and Judith Ann, 16. He is a member of more than a dozen medical societies, groups or committees engaged in promoting the forward march of the healing art.
General White was born in New York City in 1924. He attended New York public schools, earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from New York University in 1951 and a master of science degree in business administration from The George Washington University in 1966. He graduated from the Air Command and Staff College in 1959 and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1966.
He entered active military service in November 1942 as an aviation cadet and received his pilot wings and commission as a second lieutenant in February 1944.
During World War II he served with the 355th Fighter Group in the European Theater of operations, where he flew P-51 aircraft from July 1944 until February 1945 when he was shot down over Germany on his 52nd combat mission. He was captured and remained a prisoner of war until his release in April 1945. He then returned to the United States, left active duty in December 1945, and became a member of the Air Force Reserve at Mitchel Air Force Base, N.Y. During this period he attended New York University.
General White was recalled to active duty in May 1951, during the Korean War, where he served as pilot and engineering officer with the 514th Troop Carrier Wing at Mitchel Air Force Base, N.Y. In February 1952 he was assigned as a fighter pilot and flight commander with the 40th Fighter Squadron, based near Tokyo, Japan. In August 1953 he returned from overseas to serve as a systems engineer at Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss Air Force Base, N.Y.
General White moved to Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in June 1954, where he attended the USAF Experimental Test Pilot School. He then served as a test pilot and deputy chief of the Flight Test Operations Division, and later as assistant chief of the Manned Spacecraft Operations Branch.
During that period he made research flights in the X-15 aircraft. On Nov. 9, 1961, he became the first man to fly a winged craft six times faster than the speed of sound when he flew his X-15 at 4,093 miles per hour. On July 17, 1962, General White flew the rocket-powered X-15 research aircraft 59.6 miles above the earth. For this feat, he won the Air Force rating of winged astronaut--the first one awarded to a pilot.
In October 1963 he returned to Germany, where he served as operations officer for the 36th Tactical Fighter Wing at Bitburg, and later as commander of the 53rd Tactical Fighter Squadron. He returned to the United States in August 1965 to attend the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Washington, D.C., and graduated a year later. General White then was transferred to Air Force Systems Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, as chief of the Tactical Systems Office, F-111 Systems Program Office.
In May 1967 he received a Southeast Asia assignment as deputy commander for operations, 355th Tactical Fighter Wing, at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. He completed 70 combat missions in F-105 aircraft over North Vietnam. In October 1967 he became chief, attack division, Directorate of Combat Operations at Seventh Air Force Headquarters, Tan Son Nhut Airfield, Republic of Vietnam.
He returned to the United States and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in June 1968, where he served as director of the F-15 Systems Program in the Aeronautical Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command. In August 1970 General White assumed duties as commander of the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., where he was responsible for research and developmental flight testing of manned and unmanned aerospace vehicles, aircraft systems, deceleration devices and for the Air Force Test Pilot School. During his tenure as commander, testing was begun on such important programs as the F-15 Air Superiority Fighter, the A-X ground attack aircraft, and the Airborne Warning and Control System. In October 1971 he completed the Naval Test Parachutist course and was awarded parachutist's wings.
In November 1972 General White assumed duties as commandant, Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. He became chief of staff of the Fourth Allied Tactical Air Force in March 1975.
He is a command pilot astronaut. His military decorations and awards include the Air Force Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star with three oak leaf clusters, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross with four oak leaf clusters, Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal with 16 oak leaf clusters, and the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award Ribbon with "V" device. For his achievements in the X-15 aircraft, General White received the Harmon International Aviators Trophy, the Collier Trophy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Distinguished Service Medal.
Dr. Shannon, widely recognized in the scientific world for his original research in kidney function, chemotherapy, and malaria, is Director of the National Institutes of Health, the major research division of the U.S. Public Health Service, at Bethesda, Maryland. As an Assistant Surgeon General, Dr. Shannon carries a special responsibility for the formulation of broad national research policies and the coordination of the various research activities of the Public Health Service.
Dr. Shannon's career has been devoted to medical research, teaching, and public health service. Born in Hollis, New York, in 1904, Dr. Shannon graduated from Holy Cross in 1925, received his medical degree from N.Y.U. in 1929, and his Ph.D. in physiology from N.Y.U. in 1935. In 1931, he entered medical teaching at N.Y.U. and in 1942 , he became Director of Research Service at Goldwater Memorial Hospital, a medical division of New York University. He has served as guest investigator in physiology at Cambridge University, and as a member of the staff of the Marine Biological Laboratory at the Woods hole, Massachusetts. From 1946 to 1949, he was Director of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. Dr. Shannon has been associated with the U.S. Public Health Service since 1949, and in 1955 he received the post of Director of the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda.
During World War II, Dr. Shannon played a prominent part in malaria research activities of the National Research Council, and was a consultant on tropical diseases to the Secretary of War. In recognition of this work he received the Medal of Merit, one of the highest awards for civilian service in government.
In view of these accomplishments, TikTok成人版 chose this truly deserving Catholic layman, scientist, and father as the recipient of the Mendel Medal award, given in memory of another great Catholic man of science.
Dr. William John Thaler, recipient of TikTok成人版's 1960 Mendel Medal, was born December 4th, 1925, in Baltimore, MD. He attended St. James Parochial School in Baltimore and Loyola High School in Towson, MD.
Dr. Thaler was graduated from Loyola College of Baltimore in 1947 and two years later earned his Master's Degree in Science at the Catholic University of America. He took his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Physics at Catholic University in 1951.
TikTok成人版's Mendel Medal winner joined the office of Naval Research in 1951 as a member of the Acoustics Branch. Dr. Thaler's specialty is ultrasonic physics - the study of molecules through the use of sound.
He transferred to the Field Projects Branch of the Office of Naval Research in 1952 where his primary work has been in nuclear weapons effects test planning and execution. Dr. Thaler has participated in every nuclear weapons test at Eniwetok and Nevada since 1952.
His recent work on the "Teepee Project" is considered a major breakthrough in our national defense. At the age of 33, Dr. Thaler has perfected what may be one of the most significant of modern inventions: - a radar eye that can spot a rocket blast 5000 miles away almost as soon as the missile leaves the ground.
Last summer in the line of his regular duty, Dr. Thaler directed the Navy's Argus Project in which atom bombs were exploded 300 miles above the South Atlantic. In Washington, some 7000 miles away, a Project Teepee group picked up the shot.
Dr. Thaler is a member of the American Physical Society, the Society of Sigma Xi and the Acoustical Society of America. Among his published works are: Distortion of Progressive Ultrasonic Waves; Ultrasonics-A Tool For Biological Research; A New Method of Measuring Sound Velocity and many others.
He served as a Research Assistant at Catholic University before becoming associated with the Office of Naval Research in 1951. Dr. Thaler is married and the father of four children. The family resides in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Rev. James B. Macelwane, S.J., was born near Port Clinton, Ohio, on September 28,1883. He received his A.B. degree at St. Louis University, followed with the A.M. and M.S. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1918. He then went to the University of California where he obtained the Ph.D. in Physics in 1923. He became Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of California where he organized graduate study in geophysics and had charge of the seismographic stations of the University at Berkeley and at Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton.
In 1925 he was appointed Professor of Geophysics and Director of the new Department of Geophysics in St. Louis University, a position which he still holds. This was the first department of Geophysics in the western hemisphere. He was Dean of the Graduate School of St. Louis University, 1927 - 1933. In the spring of 1944 he was appointed Dean of the new Institute of Geophysical Technology, now broadened into the Institute of Technology, of St. Louis University.
Father Macelwane is an expert in elastic wave theory, earthquakes, earth structure, epicenters and seismicity. During the war he did important research for the Navy in meteorology, atmospheric micro-oscillations and micro-seisms. He has had over one hundred papers published in the scientific journals and is the author or co-author of a number of books, including聽Introduction to Theoretical Seismology, and聽When the Earth Quakes. He was largely responsible for the establishment of the relationships between microseismic disturbances and storms. He also sponsored the tripartite station method of detecting and tracking hurricanes.
Holding membership in a large number of scientific societies here and abroad, Father Macelwane has been honored by election to important offices in a number of these societies. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, of the American Physical Society, of the American Geographical Society, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is currently President of the American Geophysical Union and of the Jesuit Seismological Association, and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Seismological Society of America and of the Editorial Board of the bulletin of that society.
Frank N. Piasecki was born in Philadelphia on October 24, 1919. He studied mechanical engineering at the Towne School at the University of Pennsylvania, then transferred to the Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at New York University, where he graduated with the degree of B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering in 1940.
Following college he was an aircraft designer at Platt-LePage Aircraft Corporation, and later an aerodynamicist for Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Company, Aircraft Division.
In 1940 Mr. Piasecki founded and headed an engineering research group which was incorporated early in 1943 as the P-V Engineering Forum. In this year the group completed the PV-2, the second successful helicopter to fly in America. It was a single-seat, single-rotored helicopter.
This achievement attracted the attention of the U.S. Navy to Mr. Piasecki's proposals for a large, tandem rotored helicopter suitable for transport use, and he was awarded a contract for engineering and construction of an aircraft of this type. This helicopter, the XHRP, known popularly as the Flying Banana today is entrusted to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, as one of America's historic aircraft.
In the years since, Mr. Piasecki has sparked further design and production of transport helicopters. The largest now in production is a 20-passenger transport and rescue aircraft designed for service in Arctic regions. His company, now the Piasecki Helicopter Corporation, has more than 4500 employees and occupies over 600,000 square feet of manufacturing space. Mr. Piasecki is presently Chairman of the Board and head of the company's research and development activity.
Mr. Piasecki is a Fellow of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the American Helicopter Society. In 1951 he received the Lawrence Sperry Award of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences "for outstanding contribution to the design and development of Helicopters."
He has been president of the American Helicopter Society and Chairman of the Helicopter Council of the Aircraft Industries Association. He is a member of the advisory committee of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics of New York University. He is the donor of the Dr. Alexander Klemin Award, given annually by the American Helicopter Society for outstanding work in the field of rotary-wing aeronautics.
Hubbard, John Charles, physicist; born in Boulder Colorado on April 16, 1879 to James Edwin and Rhoda Maude (Duke) Hubbard; Bachelor of Science, University of Colorado, 1901; Ph.D. Clark University, 1904. LL.D., Loyola College, Baltimore, 1938. Married Gertrude L. Pardieck, February 9, 1929. Instructor in physics at Simmons College, Boston. 1904-1905; Assistant professor of physics department, New York University, 1904-1906, Clark University, 1906-1911; Professor of physics Clark college, 1911-1916; professor and head of physics department, New York University, 1916-1927; professor same, Johns Hopkins University, 1927-1946; physicist, Radiation Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, 1946-1947; research professor of physics, Catholic University of America, 1947---. Director of summer work in physics, New York University, 1906, University of Colorado, 1912, 1914: research engineer, Western Electric Company, summer 1917. Commander captain Signal Corps, U.S.R. Division of Research and Inspection, September 29, 1917; active service in France, information sect. Office of chief signal Officer, A.E.F.; official historian, Signal corps, A.E.F.; major, October 4, 1918; discharged May 20, 1919. Awarded Mendal Medal, TikTok成人版 College, 1946. Officier d'Academie Instruction Publique, 1919. Fellow A.A.A.S., American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Physical Society; member of Beta Theta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi; representative of the American Institution of Physics on American Engring. Standards Com.; member at large Division of Physical Sciences of National Research Council, 1931-1933; sec. member National Defense Research Committee. Clubs: Johns Hopkins (Baltimore); Andiron (New York). Author various papers giving results of original physical research. Associate editor Physical Rev., 1933-1935. Roman Catholic. Address: 4304 13th Place N.E. Washington. Died August 2, 1954; buried Richmond, Ind.
George Speri Sperti was born January 17, 1900, in Covington, Kentucky, the son of George and Carolina (Speri) Sperti. He was educated in the public schools of Covington and at the University of Cincinnati from which he received his Electrical Engineering Degree in 1923.
He was awarded the Baldwin Fellowship 1923-1925, the Rockefeller Foundation Travelling Fellowship 1930-1931, the National Research Council Fellowship 1929-1931, and was a Fellow of the Graduate School of the University of Cincinnati from 1930-1935.
Dr. Sperti was co-founder of the Basic Science Research Laboratory of the University of Cincinnati and from 1925-1935 served as Research Professor and Director of Research at that institution.
In 1935 he co-founded the Institutum Divi-Thomae of the Athenaeum of Ohio and he has been Research Professor and Director of the Institution and its affiliated laboratories since that time.
Dr. Sperti has contributed to the advancement of science in diversified fields of research. He is the inventor of a K-va and polyphase power-factor meter which has formed the basis of modern power measurements. In the field of illumination, he has developed a line of therapeutic lamps based on his inventions in the field of gaseous discharges and on his work with selective irradiation. Other Sperti developments with selective irradiation include methods for sterilization of food products, endowment of food products with anti-rachitic properties, sterilization of enzymes and the detoxification of vaccines, tenderization of meat and similar products. He has also made fundamental contributions to the field of fluorescent lighting. Dr. Sperti is the discoverer of a new family of biological substances termed Biodynes which regulate cell metabolism. He is responsible for the development of a new wound healing ointment that is being used extensively on major burns. Most of his research career has been devoted to the study of the problem of the cause and cure of cancer and he has made many significant contributions in this field.
He was editor and co-author of the "Bulletin of Basic Science Research" from 1923 to 1935, and is a co-author of "Correlated Investigations in the Basic Sciences" and the "Quantum Theory in Biology." At the present time, he is Editor-in-Chief of "Studies of the Institutum Divi Thomae."
Dr. Sperti is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Joseph A. Becker, Ph.D., was born on January 24, 1897, in the Saar District in Germany, the son of Nicholas and Katherine (Paulus) Becker. Coming to the United States with his parents at the age of three years, he became a citizen through the naturalization of his father.
Doctor Becker received his formal education in the private and public schools of New York State. He attended St. Nicholas School in Brooklyn and Newtown High School in Elmhurst. From Cornell University at Ithaca, he received his Bachelor's Degree in 1918 and his Doctorate in 1922. He was awarded a National Research Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology from 1922 to 1924.
Although Dr. Becker has served on faculties at Cornell University, at California Institute of Technology and at Stanford University, for the most part, his professional work has been done in the field of pure research. In this capacity he has served with the Bureau of Standards, with the Research Department of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company and since 1924 he has held the position of Research Physicist with the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City.
Many of his research publications have appeared in such journals as the Physical Review, Reviews of Modern Physics, Review of Scientific Instruments, Scientific Monthly, Bell Laboratories Record, Proceedings of American Electrochemical Society, and Philosophical Magazine. A review of these publications shows that his research has covered work in the fields of magnetism, X-rays, thermionic emission from oxide coated filaments and thoriated and cesiated tungsten, adsorption, electron conduction in solids, variable resistors and thermistors.
During his college days, Dr. Becker was the editor of the Sibley Journal of Engineering at Cornell University. His interest in editorial activities continues at the present time. He has served as Associate Editor and Acting Editor of the Review of Scientific Instruments.
Doctor Becker is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Eugene M.K. Geiling Ph.D., M.D. was born on May 13, 1891, in the Orange Free State of South Africa, the son of Alexander W.H. and Theresa (Keller) Geiling. He was educated at the Marist Brothers' College in Uitenhage, Cape.
Province, and received his B.A. degree from the University of South Africa in 1911. As a fellow of the Union of South African Government he attended the University of Illinois, receiving the M.Sc. (1915) and Ph.D. (1917) degrees in animal nutrition and chemistry. Returning to South Africa, he served his government during the first World War as a member of the Food Commission, and later became lecturer in agricultural chemistry at the Agricultural College in Potchefstroom, Transvaal. In 1918-1919 Dr. Geiling was a lecturer in physiological chemistry at the College of Medicine, University of Cape Town. He returned to the United States in 1920 as Seessel fellow at Yale University. In 1921 he became assistant in Pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, from which he received the M.D. degree in 1923.
During the following years at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Geiling rose in rank to associate professor and began the scientific investigations which have made him an outstanding member of his profession. In association with his beloved chief, Dr. John Jacob Abel, he collaborated in such major contributions to scientific knowledge as the crystallization of insulin, purification of albumoses, secretine, and the posterior pituitary hormones. During the same period his independent investigations embraced studies of the physiological effects of insulin and an especially important and fundamental contribution concerned with the relationship between the hormones of the pancreas and pituitary glands. His more recent work has centered around investigation of the pituitary gland and especially its comparative pharmacology and anatomy. These investigations have carried him and his co-workers from whaling expeditions in northwest Canada and the St. Lawrence to marine studies in Florida and the sub-tropics.
In 1936 Dr. Geiling was called to the University of Chicago as the first Professor and Chairman of the newly established Department of Pharmacology.
Dr. Geiling was naturalized as an American citizen on June 15, 1939. For several years he has served as consultant to the United States Food and Drug Administration, and also as a member of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association. Since 1939 he has been President of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. He has contributed numerous articles to scientific journals, and is a member of the editorial board of Physiological Reviews, the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine. he was Foster Lecturer at the University of Buffalo in 1938, and Paul Reed Rockwood Lecturer at the State University of Iowa in 1940.
Dr. Petrus J.W. Debye, Director of the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, was born in Maastricht, Holland, on March 24, 1884.
After having finished high school work at the Hoogere Burger School of his native town, he entered the Technische Hochscule of Aachen, where he studied electrical engineering and obtained the degree of Diplom-Ingenieur in 1905.
During his last year in Aachen and from 1906 to 1911, he was an assistant of Professor Sommerfeld, the well-known theoretical physicist, at the University of Munich. In 1908, he obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Munich, and in 1911 he was called to the University of Zurich as a Professor in Theoretical Physics. In 1913, he was called to the University of Utrecht, and in 1914, to the University of Goettingen.
Dr. Debye was appointed in 1920, Professor of Physics and Director of the Physics Laboratory at the Eidgenoessische Technische Hochscule in Zurich, and in 1927 he was called to the equivalent position at the university of Leipzig. In 1935, he was asked by the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft to build a research Institute for Physics, with funds provided by the Rockefeller Institute. This is now known as the Max Planck Institute. At the same time, he was appointed as a Professor at the University of Berlin.
Professor Debye has published many papers, dealing mostly with questions of molecular structure, his object being always to bridge the gap between chemistry and physics. Since 1916, he has been the editor of the Physikalische Zeitschrift. He received the Rumford, the Faraday, the Lorentz and the Franklin medals, and was given honorary degrees by the Universities of Oxford, Liege, Bruxelles, Sofia and Harvard. In 1936, he was awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry. He has visited the United States several times, lecturing at various universities. He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of learned societies and academies in many countries.
Rev. John Montgomery Cooper, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, at the Catholic University of America, was born at Rockville, Maryland on October 28th, 1881. He is descended from James Cooper, of Mayfield, Staffordshire, England, who settled at Darby, Pennsylvania, in 1684. Doctor Cooper received his early education at Calvert Hall, Baltimore, Maryland, from 1888 to 1897. Thereafter, he matriculated at St. Charles College Howard County, Maryland, and two years later enrolled at the American College in Rome. The Doctor of Philosophy Degree was conferred on him by the Roman Academy of St. Thomas in 1902, and three years later, he was awarded the Doctorate in Sacred Theology by Propaganda College in Rome. Ordained to the priesthood in Rome, on June 17th, 1905, Father Cooper has been a member of the faculty of Catholic University since 1909, and Professor of Anthropology since 1928.
Doctor Cooper's scientific work has been concerned chiefly with the North American Indians amongst whom he has done a large amount of field research. From 1915 to 1938, he has to his credit, twelve expeditions to various tribes. He has made significant discoveries particularly with reference to land tenure, hunting and trapping methods, and the magico - religious culture of such tribes as Tetes-de-Boule Cree, James Bay Cree and Montagnais and Althabaskan speaking peoples of the Mackenzie Valley. He also has to his credit, discoveries in the stratification of culture in southern South America, especially of the Tribes of Tierra del Fuego.
Doctor Cooper has published four books on his findings in Anthropology, as well as numerous articles which have appeared in scientific journals in this country and abroad. He has merited the recognition of his fellow scientists of the American Anthropological Association, being chosen to serve as Secretary from 1931 to 1937, and as Vice - President from 1937 to the present. He is a past President of the Anthropological Society of Washington; Chairman, National Research Council Committee on Survey of South American Indians; Corresponding member Sociedad Anthropologia Argentina, member Washington Academy of Sciences; Societe des Americanistes de Paris and Anthropologische Gesellschaft in Wien. He has been the moving spirit of the Catholic Anthropological Conference serving from the beginning as Secretary - Treasurer and Editor of the Conference Publications, and of its quarterly, "Primitive Man".
Parran, Thomas, Physician, found. executive; born in St. Leonard, Maryland, on September 28, 1892; to Benjamin and Mary (Latimer) Parran; A.B., St. John's College, 1911, A.M., 1915; M.D., Georgetown University, 1915; LL.D., St. Johns College, Syracuse University, St. Bonaventure College, Toronto University, University of California; Sc.D., Georgetown University, Duquesne University, Colgate University, Columbia, Wesleyan University, Tufts College, University of Maryland, Rutgers University, University of Utah, Marietta College, Washington and Jefferson College, Marquette University, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, New York University; Dr.P.H., New York University; Pharm. D., Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science; Doctor of Science, University of Pittsburgh; married Angela Bentley Vandoren, on June 26, 1918 (deceased). Children - Thomas, Benjamin, Theodore Vandoren, Richard Bentley; married a second to Buda Carroll Keller, August 30, 1930 (deceased); Commanding officer, USPHS, 1917; Surgeon General, 1936-1948; Dean of Graduate school public health University of Pittsburgh, 1948-1958; President of the Avalon Foundation, New York City, 1958-1961, trustee, 1955---; consultant to Avalon Foundation and Pan-American Health Organization, 1961--; medical mission to Liberia, 1962. Member of the New York State Regents Com. on Medical Edn, 1961--; Health commr. New York State, 1930-1936; U.P.S. rep.; Interim Commr., W.H.O., director of council, Pan-American San. Bur., 1938-1949; fellowhip, Society of Medical Officers of Health (Eng). Member of advanced board Point Four Program, 1950. Recipient of the Leon Bernard Award, WHO, 1958. Life member of the American Public Health Association (treasurer, 1931-1932, chairman of the executive committee, 1932-1935, president 1936), life member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (president 1938-1939). Honorary fellow of the Royal San Institute, royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene (England); fellow, Royal College of Medicine, American Medical Association, New York Academy of Medicine, Washington Academy of Medicine, A.C.S., National Vitamin Foundation. (president 1960), A.C.P. (bd. govs.); Am. Neisserian Medical Society (president 1936), Association of American Physicians, National Tuberculosis Association (vice president 1937). Author: Shadow on the Land, 1937; Plain Words about Venereal Diseases, 1941. Awarded Mendel Medal, TikTok成人版 College; Sedgwich medal, American Public Health Association; Wm. Freeman Snow award, American Social Hygiene Association; Doctor Eduardo Liceaga Medal of Mexico; Kober (Georgetown University) Lectureship; Grand Officer Order of Carlos Finlay of Cuba, Order of Aesculapius (Medical Society of Columbia), Comdr. Order Public Health of France; U.S. Typhus Commn. Medal; A.P.H.A. Lasker Award, 1947; D.S.M., U.S. Army, 1948; Cutter Lectureship, Harvard, 1954. Home: 631 St. James St., Pittsburgh. 32. Died February 1968.
Rev. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., distinguished paleontologist and explorer with the National Geological Survey of China, was born near Royat, Central France, in the year 1881. His scientific career dates from 1911 when he began his first studies on early man at the University of Paris under the celebrated vertebrate paleontologist, Marcellin Boule. After receiving the degree, Doctor of Philosophy, he served for some time as Professor of Paleontology at Institut Catholique de Paris.
In the summer of 1923, the French Ministry of Education and the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle sent him with Pere Licent on a geological expedition to the Ordos, along the Great Wall of China. Here he did his first geologic and stratigraphic work in China, and began the work on source materials concerning early man, which he has carried on ever since with conspicuous success. He was also intimately associated with Pere Licent in the development and enrichment of the Hoangho - Paiho Museum. Together they led a combined paleontological mission of the Musee National d'Histoire Naturelle and the Hoangho - Paiho Museum in 1924, in 1926, and again in 1927. Pere Teilhard was associated with other important expeditions into the interior of Asia. He also has co-operated with the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, and with the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
From 1915 on, Pere Teilhard has contributed extensively to scientific journals in Belgium, China, England and France. A representative collection of his works is to be found in the Osborn Library of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
He is a member and one time President of the Societe Geologique de France, honorary adviser of the National Geological Survey of China, and reipient of the Medal Grand Prix de Institut International in 1931.
Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, C.S.C., Professor of Chemistry at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, was born in Hansbeke, Belgium, February 14, 1878.
Coming to this country in his youth, he was educated at the University of Notre Dame and at the Catholic University of America. He received the Doctor of Philosophy Degree in 1904, from Catholic University, and the degree, Doctor of Science, in 1911, from the University of Notre Dame. He entered the Congregation of the Holy Cross in 1892, and was ordained a priest at Baltimore, December 19, 1903. Father Nieuwland has been an active member of the faculty of the University of Notre Dame since 1904. He served as Dean of the College of Science from 1920 to 1923, and is at the present time, Professor of Organic Chemistry.
Father Nieuwland's scientific work has been concerned chiefly with acetylene and its derivatives. He has contributed materially to the development of this branch of chemical science. In 1904, his publication of "Some Reactions of Acetylene" attracted considerable attention in the scientific and industrial world. He discovered the compound which was developed by the Government during the war into the gas known as Lewisite. In 1906 he discovered the component parts of synthetic rubber and fourteen years later he was able to alter the composition of the gas he had first produced so as to form an oil, "divinyl acetylene," the material from which the rubber is synthesized. From this point, he continued his work with chemists of the duPont Company, and has produced a satisfactory synthetic rubber.
Father Nieuwland is a member of both the British and the American Chemical Societies, of the Deutsche Chemische Gesselschaft, and of the American Society for the Advancement of Science. He was Secretary of the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society in 1924-1925, Chairman of the same in 1925-1926. He served as Vice-President of the Indiana Academy of Science in 1929, and as President of the Academy in 1934.
In 1932, Father Nieuwland received the Morehead Medal for research in acetylene; in 1934, he was awarded the American Institute Medal, and in 1935, he received the Nichols Medal, the highest honor in the gift of the American Chemical Society.聽
Dr. Francis Owen Rice, Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, was born in Liverpool, England, May 20, 1890. He was educated at the University of Liverpool where he received his degree of Doctor of Science in 1916. From 1916 to the close of the World War he held important positions in His Majesty's Chemical Plants in England. At the end of the war, Doctor Rice returned to academic life and came to Princeton University on an 1851 Exhibition Fellowship. He was Assistant Professor of Chemistry at New York University from 1919 - 1926, and has since been at Johns Hopkins University.
Professor Rice's scientific work lies mainly in the borderland between physical and organic chemistry. Four years ago he was the first chemist to see the implication which experiments of Paneth on the production of free radicals would have on our understanding of reaction velocities. During the past few years his researches have led him to the conclusion that a great many organic reactions proceed through the intermediate formation of free-radicals and he has proposed mechanisms which permit quantitative calculations of the products formed in the pyrogenic decomposition of organic compounds.
A distinguished colleague in another University says of Dr. Rice: "For two years he was voice crying in the wilderness. No one treated his ideas with seriousness. Within the past year there has been a complete change of opinion and it is now recognized that his ideas are substantially correct, and, as a consequence, a whole chapter in modern chemistry is of necessity to be re-examined and re-formulated in terms of his concepts."
A half-hundred research articles of Doctor Rice have been published in scientific journals here and abroad. He is the author of one of the American Chemical Society's Monographs on the Mechanism of Homogeneous Organic reactions. His latest book "The Aliphatic Free Radicals" recently published by the Johns Hopkins Press, embodies the ideas that he has developed.
Abbe Georges Lemaitre, Ph.D. Dr.Sc., Priest, Scientist, Author, and Originator of the theory of the expanding universe. Born in Charleori, Belgium 1894, he has become one of the youngest scientists that has ever made an important contribution in explanation of astro-physical phenomena.
Professor Albert Einstein termed his theory of the expanding universe "the most satisfactory yet presented," and recommended him for the Francqui prize, given by the Belgian Government to one of its citizens who has aided greatly in carrying forth the prestige of the Belgian Nation in the realm of discovery and research. Lemaitre was awarded the prize on May 14, 1932.
Professor Hugh Stott Taylor is the David B. Jones Professor of Chemistry in Princeton University. He is English by birth and was educated at the University of Liverpool, where he was graduated with the degree of B.Sc. in 1909, and with the M.Sc. in 1910. After three years of graduate work in Liverpool, Professor Taylor spent one year of post-graduate study at the Nobel Institute, Stockholm, under the renowned chemist, Professor Svante Arrhenius. A further year of study was spent in the Laboratory of the Technische Hocheschule at Hanover with Professor Max Bodenstein. Upon completion of these studies, the University of Liverpool granted him the degree of Doctor of Science in 1914.
Dr. Taylor was called to Princeton early in 1914 as Instructor in Physical Chemistry, and was made Assistant Professor in 1915. He was appointed Professor of Physical Chemistry in 1922. Professor Taylor was made Chairman of the Chemistry Department at Princeton in 1926, and David B. Jones Professor of Chemistry in 1927.
Professor Taylor is Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society of which Society he was the Nichols Medalist in 1928; Vice-President of the American Electrochemical Society; a member of the American Philosophical Society; the Faraday Society; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; German Bunsen-Gesellschaft. He is Chairman of the Committee of Photochemistry of the National Research Council; a member of the Committee on Contact Catalysis, and author of two of its annual reports. During the last five years he has been Chairman of the Central Petroleum Committee of the National Research Council, and is now associated with the Research Fellowship Board of the Textile Foundation. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in May, 1932.
Professor Taylor is the author of numerous texts and researches. With Dr. E.K. Rideal, he has compiled a text on "Catalysis in Theory and Practice." He has edited a "Treatise on Physical Chemistry," now in its second edition. Some one hundred papers, dealing especially with catalysis and the mechanism of chemical reaction, alone and in collaboration with students, have been contributed to various American and European scientific journals.
Therefore, upon Dr. Francis P. Garvan, of New York City, has been conferred the Mendel Medal for 1932. Dr. Garvan is well known, today, as the president of the Chemical Foundation of America, which organization, under his guidance, has done much for the furtherance of chemistry.
Garvan, Francis Patrick, lawyer; born East Hartford, Connecticut, June 13, 1875; Son of Patrick and Mary (Carroll) Garvan; A.B., Yale, 1897; LL.B., New York Law School, 1899; studied Catholic University, 1898; LL.D., Fordham, 1919; A.M., Yale, 1922; LL.D., Trinity College, 1935; married Mabel Brady, June 9, 1910. Began practice in New York City, 1899, assistant district attorney, 1900-1910; director Bureau of Investigation, U.S., and manager New York office of alien property custodian, March 4, 1919; also assistant attorney general of U.S. Dean Fordham Law School 1919-1923; trustee Catholic University. Democrat. Catholic. Home: New York, N.Y. Died November 7, 1937.聽
Dr. Karl F. Herzfeld, Professor of Physics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, because of his achievements in the furthering of scientific knowledge, was awarded in 1931, the Mendel Medal of TikTok成人版 College.
Herzfeld, Karl Ferdinand, physicist; born in Vienna, Austria February 24, 1892; son of Charles August (M.D.) and Camilla (Herzog) Herzfeld; Student Schottes Gymnasium, Vienna, 1902-1910, University of Vienna, 1910-1912, University of Zurich, 1912-1913, University of Gottingen, 1913-1914; Ph.D., University of Vienna, 1914; D.Sc. honoris causa, Loyola College, Baltimore, 1932, Marquette University, 1933; D.Sc. University of Maryland, 1956, Manhattan College, 1959; hon. degrees Fordham University, 1960, Institute of Technology Stuttgart, 1962, Catholic University of America, 1963, University of Notre Dame, 1965, Providence College, 1965; married Regina Flannery, 1938. Privat-docent University of Munich, 1920, a.o. professor, 1923; Speyer guest professor, Johns Hopkins, 1926, professor of physics, 1926-1936, professor emeritus, 1968-1978. Served as 1st lieutenant Austrian Army, 1914-1918. Recipient Mendel Medal, 1931; Secchi medal Georgetown University, 1938; Certificate of Exceptional Service to Navy Ordnance Development, 1946; Cardinal Gibbons medal, 1960; USN Meritorious Public Service award, 1964; Papal Bene Merenti medal, 1965. Fellow American Physics Society, A.A.A.S., Acoustical Society of America; member Washington Academy of Science, Washington Philosophical Society, German Physics Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Gamma Alpha. K.C. Author: Kinetische Theorie der Waerme, 1925; Absorption and Dispersion of Ultrasonic Waves (with T.A. Litovitz), 1959. Home: Washington, D.C. Died June 3, 1978; interred Mt. Olivet Cemetery.聽
The Mendel Medalist for 1930 is Dr. Albert F. Zahm, one of America's pioneers in scientific aeronautics. Dr. Zahm has made a series of inventions in this science, was the first to develop a modern aerodynamic laboratory and has written a history of aerial navigation, as well as a great number of scientific papers and reports. Dr. Zahm, at present, holds the Daniel Guggenheim Chair of Aeronautics in the Library of Congress.
Zahm, Albert Francis, educator; Born in New Lexington, Ohio; Son of J.M. and M.E. (Braddock) Zahm; A.B., University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 1883, A.M., 1885, M.S. 1890; M.E. Cornell, 1892; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1898. Professor of Mathematics University of Notre Dame 1885-1889, mathematics and mechanics, 1890-1892; associate professor mechanics Catholic University of America, 1895-1907, professor, 1907-1908; chief research engineer Curtiss Aeroplane Co., 1914-1915; director Aerodynamical Laboratory, USN, 1916-1929; in charge of aeronautics division Library of Congress, 1930-1946, occupying the Guggenheim chair of aeronautics. Del. International Conference Aerial Navigation, 1893, 1900. Recipient Laetare medal University of Notre Dame, 1925, Mendel Medal TikTok成人版 College, 1930. Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Philos. Society of Washington, Washington Academy of Sciences, Institute of Aero. Sciences. Author: Treatise on Aerial Navigation; booklet on Early Powerplane Fathers; also many technical papers on aerial research. Address: Cosmos Club, Washington. Died July 23, 1954; buried Community Cemetery, Notre Dame, Indiana.聽
Kolmer, John Albert, physician; born in Lonaconing, Allegheny County, Maryland on April 24, 1886 to Leonard and Selma Louisa (Reichelt) Kolmer; graduated from Charlotte Hall Military Academy in 1904; M.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1908, Dr.P.H., 1914; M.Sc., TikTok成人版 College, 1915, D.Sc., 1921, LL.D., 1927; D.Sc. LaSalle College, 1935; L.H.D., St. Joseph's College, 1935; married B.Cecilia Herron, Sept 18, 1912. Professor of medicine, Temple University School of Medicine and School of Dentistry; Director of the Institute of Public Health and Preventive Medicine; consulting pathologist at St. Vincent's and Misericordia hospitals. Fellow A.M.A., College Physicians of Philadelphia, American College of Physicians; member of the American Association of Immunologists (President), American Society of Clinical Pathologists (President), Alpha Kappa, Sigma Xi, etc. Catholic. Author of: Infection, Immunity, and Biologic Therapy, 1915; Manual of Laboratory Diagnostic Methods, 1925; Chemotherapy and Treatment of Syphilis, 1926; Serum Diagnosis by Complement Fixation, 1928; Acute Infections Diseases (with Jay Frank Schamberg), 1928; Approved Laboratory Technic (with Fred Boerner), 1931; Clinical Immunology, Biotherapy and Chemotherapy (with Louis Tuft), 1941; Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Examinations, 1944; Penicillin Therapy, 1945. Contributor to Frazier's Spinal Surgery and Keen's surgery. Home: Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. Office: 2101 Pine Street, Philadelphia. Died December 11, 1962.