Howard Schachman

Howard K. Schachman is a Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley.

Schachman received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1948. He has been on the faculty of UC Berkeley ever since. He signed but protested the loyalty oath required by the Regents of the University of California during McCarthyism.[1] In 1966, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1968 to the United States National Academy of Sciences.

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

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

Each spring, he teaches the MCB 293C course on Ethical Conduct of Research required for NIH-funded students.[2]

References

  1. Howard K. Schachman to UC President Robert Sproul, November 1, 1950, accessed 2006-09-11
  2. MCB 293C course homepage

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