Ira Herskowitz
Ira Herskowitz (July 14, 1946 – April 28, 2003) was an American geneticist. He was noted for his work on cellular differentiation.[1]
He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology, and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in 1971.[2] He taught at the University of Oregon. He moved to University of California, San Francisco in 1981, where he headed the Herskowitz lab.[3]
He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2002, the National Academy of Sciences in 1986.[4] He died in San Francisco, California on April 28, 2003 of pancreatic cancer.[1]
James D. Watson:
He was one of the people who made U.C.S.F. the most exciting place in the world for a younger scientist to be. A talk by Ira was always fun to listen to. And he approached science with a certain degree of idealism.[1]
Awards
- 1985 NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing of the National Academy of Sciences.[5]
- 1987 MacArthur Fellows Program
- 1988 Genetics Society of America Medal
- 2002 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal
- 2003 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Duenwald, Mary (3 May 2003). "Ira Herskowitz, a Top Geneticist, Dies at 56". The New York Times.
- ↑ http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/full/166/2/653
- ↑ http://biochemistry.ucsf.edu/labs/herskowitz/
- ↑ http://www.vetscite.org/publish/items/001232/index.html
- ↑ "NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 February 2011.
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