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DR. WENDELL M. STANLEY
Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, biochemist (research), was born in
His
education was as follows: B.S. from Earlham College in 1926, Sc.D. (Hon.) in
1938; M.S. from University of Illinois in 1927 and Ph.D. in 1929; Sc.D. (Hon.)
from Harvard University and Yale University in 1938; LL.D. (Hon.) from
University of California in 1946; Sc.D. from Princeton University in 1947; Dr. honoris causa from University of
Paris in 1947; LL.D. (Hon.) from Indiana University in 1951.
Dr. Stanley
was research associate at University of Illinois, 1929-30, and instructor in
1930; National Research Council Fellow, Munich, 1930-41; assistant, Rockefeller
Institute, New York, 1931-32, Rockefeller Institute, Princeton, N.J., 1932-35,
associate, 1935-37, associate member, 1937-40, and member, 1940-48. Member of
Executive Committee and Council of National
Member of
Editorial Board, Proceedings of Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine,
1951-1956; member of Editorial Board, Archives fur die gesamte
Virusforschung, since 1951. Member of American
Philosophical Society; National Academy of Sciences; Gamma Alpha, Alpha Omega
Alpha (Hon.); Franklin Institute (Hon.); Harvey Society (Hon.); American
Society of Biological Chemists; American Association for Advancement of
Science; American Phytopathological Society; American
Society of Naturalists; American Chemical Society; Alpha Chi Sigma, Phi Lambda
Upsilon, Sigma Xi; Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine; Phi Kappa
Phi.
Dr. Stanley
is the author of publications on viruses in scientific journals and contributor
to “Viral and Rickettsial Infections of Man” and
other books. Awarded the American Association for the Advancement of Science
prize in 1937; The Isaac Adler prize in 1938 by Medical School of Harvard
University; The Rosenberger Medal for 1938 by University of Chicago; The John
Scott Medal, Certificate, and premium of $1,000 for 1938 by City of
Philadelphia; The Gold Medal of the American Institute of the City of New York
for 1941; a Copernican Citation by Copernican Quadricentennial
National Committee in 1943; The Nichols Medal of New York Section of The
American Chemical Society in 1946; Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946; Gibbs
Medal of Chicago Section of American Chemical Society in 1947; Franklin Medal
of the Franklin Institute in 1948, for chemical studies on viruses. Received the Presidential Certificate of Merit for development of
centrifuge-type influenza vaccine, 1948.
Dr. Stanley
was Sigma Xi national lecturer in 1938; Harvey lecturer, Harvey Society, in
1938; Hitchcock Professor, University of California, October of 1940; visiting
professor of Chemistry, Earlham College, May of 1941; Messenger lecturer,
Cornell University, in 1942; Vanuxem lecturer,
Princeton University, 1942; Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial
lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, 1947; Silliman lecturer, Yale University,
1947; Lower lecturer, Cleveland Academy of Medicine, 1948; Biology Colloquium
lecturer, Oregon State College, 1950.
On June 15,
1929, Dr. Stanley married Marian Staples Jay; children: Wendell M., Jr.,
born November 9, 1932; Marjorie Jean, born May 22, 1934;
Dorothy Claire, born July 3, 1937; and Janet Elizabeth, born
July 4, 1942.
Home: 220 The Uplands,
Address:
Biochemistry and Virus Laboratory,
Transcribed
by Marie Hassard 02 March 2014.
Source: Eminent Californians 1953, by Lee
E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Pages 165-166,
C. W. Taylor Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Marie Hassard.
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