Curriculum Vitae
July 9, 1900 | Born in Landeshut Silesia, Germany (now Poland) |
1918-1919 | University of Breslau (Germany) |
1919-1920 | University of Heidelberg (Germany) |
1920-1921 | University of Freiburg (Germany) |
1921-1922 | University of München (Germany) |
1922-1925 | University of Freiburg (Germany) |
1925 | Ph.D. in Zoology (Experimental Embryology) under Professor H. Spemann, Nobel Laureate. University of Freiburg |
1925-1926 | Research Associate, University of Göttingen (Prof. A. Kühn) |
1926-1927 | Research Associate, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology (Prof. O. Mangold) Berlin - Dahlem, Germany |
1927-1932 | Privatdozent, Instructor, Zoological Institute, University of Freiburg |
1932-1935 | Rockefeller Fellow, Instructor, Department of Zoology, University of Chicago |
1935-1939 | Assistant Professor of Zoology, Washington University, St. Louis |
1939-1941 | Associate Professor of Zoology, Washington University, St. Louis |
1941-1968 | Professor of Zoology, Washington University, St. Louis |
1968-1969 | Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished Service Professor of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis |
1969- | Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis |
1941-1966 | Chairman, Department of Zoology, Washington University, St. Louis |
1936-1945 | Instructor, later Director, Embryology Course, Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA |
1947 | (Spring) Special Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD |
1947 | (Summer) Visiting Professor, Zoology Department, University of Chicago |
1950 | (Spring) Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
1950 | (Summer) Visiting Professor, Department of Zoology, University of California, Berkeley |
June 12, 2001 | Died, St. Louis, Missouri |
Member American Society of Zoologists (President, 1955)
American Association of Anatomists
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (Vice-President, Chairman, Section F, 1960)
American Society for Developmental Biology (President, 1950, 1951)
Society for Developmental Biology
International Society for Cell Biology
International Society of Developmental Biologists
Honorary
Member International Society for Developmental Neuroscience
Honors National Academy of Science (U.S.A.), 1953
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1959
Sigma XI
Phi Beta Kappa
Honorary Doctorate of Science, Washington University, May 21, 1976
F.O. Schmitt Medal and Prize in Neuroscience, Oct. 20, 1976
Wakeman Award in Neuroscience, 1978
Ross G. Harrison - ISDB Prize in Developmental Biology of the International Society of Developmental Biologists, Aug. 21, 1981
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize in Cell Biology and Developmental NeuroBiology, Columbia University, Oct. 17, 1983
Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy, University of Uppsala, Sweden, 1984
Ralph Gerard Prize and Medal of the Society for Neuroscience, 1985
Fidia-Georgetown Award in Neuroscience, May, 1987
National Medal of Science, Oct. 18, 1989
Karl Spencer Lashley Award of the American Philosophical Society, April, 1990
Honorary Member, American Society of Zoologists, 1990
Honorary Doctorate, Rockefeller University, 1999
(First) Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for Developmental Biology, 2000.