Howard Schachman

Howard Kapner Schachman (December 5, 1918 – August 5, 2016) was a graduate school professor in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Schachman was born in Philadelphia in 1918.[1][2] He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1948 and joined the faculty of UC Berkeley. He signed but protested the loyalty oath required by the Regents of the University of California during McCarthyism.[3] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1966) and the United States National Academy of Sciences (1968).

Among many other honors, he received the AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award in 2000.

The "Howard K. Schachman Public Service Award" of the ASBMB is named after him.

Each spring, he taught the MCB 293C course on Ethical Conduct of Research required for NIH-funded students.[4] He died at the age of 97 on August 5, 2016.[5]

References

The Centennial Record of the University of California By Verne A. Stadtman, University of California Print. Department, 1967
Kresge, Nicole; Simoni, Robert D.; Hill, Robert L. (May 25, 2007). "Innovations in ultracentrifugation and an analysis of aspartate transcarbamoylase: The work of Howard K. Schachman". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282 (21): e16. ISSN 0021-9258. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
Howard K. Schachman to UC President Robert Sproul, November 1, 1950, accessed 2006-09-11
MCB 293C course homepage
UC Berkeley biochemist dies at 97

Howard K. Schachman (2006). "From 'Publish or Perish' to 'Patent and Prosper'". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281 (11): 6889–6903. doi:10.1074/JBC.X600002200. PMID 16531416.
Howard K. Schachman (2000). "New Secrecy in Science: Government-Imposed to Self-Imposed" (PDF). In Albert H. Teich; Stephen D. Nelson; Ceilia McEnaney; Stephen J. Lita (eds.). AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2000. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2006-09-11.

External links

Home page at the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

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[1] The Centennial Record of the University of California By Verne A. Stadtman, University of California Print. Department, 1967

[JBC-2] Kresge, Nicole; Simoni, Robert D.; Hill, Robert L. (May 25, 2007). "Innovations in ultracentrifugation and an analysis of aspartate transcarbamoylase: The work of Howard K. Schachman". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282 (21): e16. ISSN 0021-9258. Retrieved August 13, 2016.

[3] Howard K. Schachman to UC President Robert Sproul, November 1, 1950, accessed 2006-09-11

[4] MCB 293C course homepage

[5] UC Berkeley biochemist dies at 97