Born: Hartford, Connecticut 16 June 1902

Deceased: Huntington, New York September 2, 1992

Secondary Education:

Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, New York

Earned Degrees:

B.S. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 1923

M.A. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 1925

Ph.D. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 1927

Positions held:

Instructor in Botany, Cornell University 1927-1931

Fellow, National Research Council 1931-1933

Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation 1933-1934

Research Associate, Cornell University 1934-1936

Assistant Professor, University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri 1936-1941

Staff Member, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 1942-1967

Distinguished Service Member, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 1967-1992

Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology 1954

Consultant, Agricultural Science Program, The Rockefeller Foundation 1963-1969

Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University 1965-1974

Honorary Doctor of Science:

University of Rochester 1947

Western College for Women 1949

Smith College 1957

University of Missouri 1968

Williams College 1972

The Rockefeller University 1979

Harvard University 1979

Yale University 1982

University of Cambridge 1982

Bard College 1983

State University of New York 1983

New York University 1983

Rutgers, State University of New Jersey 1984

La Faculte des Sciences Agronomiques de l'Etat a Gambloux, Belgium 1985

Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters:

Georgetown University 1981

Awards:

Achievement Award, Association of 1947 University Women

Merit Award, Botanical Society of America 1957

Kimber Genetics Award, National Academy 1967 of Sciences

National Medal of Science 1970

Lewis S. Rosensteil Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research 1978 The Louis and Bert Freedman Foundation Award for Research in Biochemistry 1978

Salute from the Genetics Society of America 1980

Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal, Genetics Society of America 1981

Honorary Member, The Society for Developmental Biology 1981

Wolf Prize in Medicine 1981

Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award 1981

MacArthur Prize Fellow Laureate 1981

Honorary Member, The Genetical Society, Great Britain 1982

Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry 1982

Charles Leopold Mayer Prize, Academie des Sciences, Institut de France 1982

Nobel Prize for Medicine 1983

Albert A. Michelson Award 1984

Honorary Member, American Medical Women's Association 1984

Regents Medal of Excellence, The State University of New York 1984

Honorary Member, Medical Women's International Association 1985

Honorary Member, The American Society of Naturalists 1985

Honorary Member, The New York Academy of Sciences 1985

Honorary Vice-President for the 16th International Congress of Genetics (Ontario, Canada-1988) 1985

National Women's Hall of Fame Award 1986

Foreign Member of the Royal Society. London 1989

125th Anniversary Medal, University of California, San Francisco 1990

Honorary Fellow, Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding 1991

Professional Societies :

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Philosophical Society

American Society of Naturalists Genetics Society of American (Vice President, 1939; President, 1945)

National Academy of Sciences

Sigma Xi

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