Born:  October 18, 1921, Brooklyn, New York

B.S., 1941, City College of New York
A.M., 1942, Ph.D., 1946, Duke University

American Chemical Society Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, 1946-47

Cornell University

 Instructor of Chemistry                    1947-50
 Asst. Professor                                1950-53
 Assoc. Professor                             1953-58
 Professor                                        1958-65
 Todd Professor                                1965-92
 Todd Professor Emeritus                   1992-
 Chairman, Chemistry Dept.                1960-67

Honors

 Guggenheim Fellow and Fulbright Research Scholar
      a) Carlsberg Lab., Copenhagen, Denmark, 1956-57
      b) Weizmann Institute, Rehovoth, Israel, 1963
 National Institutes of Health Special Fellow, Weizmann Institute Rehovoth, Israel, 1970
 Fogarty Scholar, National Institutes of Health, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
 ACS Eli Lilly Award in Biochemistry, 1957
 Sc.D. (Hon.), Duke University, 1961; University of Rochester, 1988
 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1966
 Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences, U.S., 1966
 Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967
 Townsend Harris Medal, C.C.N.Y., 1970
 Nichols Medal, New York Section, American Chemical Society, 1974
 City College Chemistry Alumni Scientific Achievement Award Medal, 1977
 ACS Kendall Award in Colloid or Surface Chemistry, 1978
 Linderstrøm-Lang Medal, Carlsberg Laboratory, 1983
 Kowalski Medal, International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 1983
 Pauling Medal, Puget Sound and Oregon Sections, American Chemical Society, 1985
 Elected Honorary Life Member, New York Academy of Sciences, 1985
 Elected Honorary Member, Hungarian Biophysical Society, 1989
 ACS Mobil Award in Polymer Chemistry, 1990
 ACS Repligen Award for Chemistry of Biological Processes, 1990
 Doctor Honoris Causa, National University of San Luis, Argentina, 1992
 International Society of Quantum Chemistry and Quantum Pharmacology Award in Theoretical Biology, 1993
 Doctor Scientiarum Honoris Causa, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, 1993
 Elected Honorary Member,  Society of Polymer Science, Japan, 1995
 Stein and Moore Award, Protein Society, 1995
 Elected Honorary Member, American Peptide Society, 1996
 ACS IBM Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, 1997
 ACS Ralph Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry, 1999
 Elected Fellow of the Biophysical Society, 1999

Professional Experience

 Visiting Lecturer in Summer School in Protein Chemistry, Division of Protein Chemistry, Wool Research
                Laboratories,  C.S.I.R.O., Melbourne, Australia, December 1959
 Visiting Professor, Biophysics Dept., Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, Israel, 1972-78
 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Polymer Science, Kyoto University, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, August 1977
 Visiting Professor, Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of San Luis, Argentina, March 1986
 Adjunct Professor, Dept. Biomathematical Sciences, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, 1991-
 Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute, 1999-
 Welch Foundation Lecturer, Texas, 1962
 Harvey Lecturer, New York, 1968
 Gallagher Lecturer, C.C.N.Y., 1968-69
 Invited Main Lecturer, Australian Biochemical Society, May 1971
 Invited Main Lecturer, South African Chemical Society, July 1972
 Lemieux Lecturer, Ottawa, 1973
 IBM Distinguished Invited Lecturer, San Jose, 1973
 Hill Lecturer, Duke University, 1976
 Distinguished Invited Lecturer, University of Calgary, 1979
 Venable Lecturer, University of North Carolina, 1981
 Washburn Award Lecturer, University of Nebraska, 1988
 Member, Ithaca Board of Education, 1958-59
 Vice-Chairman, Cornell Section, Amer. Chem. Soc., 1954-55; Chairman, 1955-56; Councillor, 1959-62
 Member, Executive Comm., Div. Biol. Chem., Am. Chem. Soc., 1966-69
 Vice-Chairman, Div. Biol. Chem., Am. Chem. Soc., 1970; Chairman, 1971
 Member, Council, Biophys. Soc., 1967-70
 Chairman, Program Comm., February 1970 National Meeting of the Biophys.  Soc.
 Co-Chairman, Gordon Research Conference on Proteins, 1963
 Member-at-Large, Council of the Gordon Research Conferences, 1969-71
 Member, Advisory Panel in Molecular Biology, National Science Foundation, 1960-62
 Member, Biochemistry Training Comm., National Institutes of Health,  1963-65
 Member, Research Career Award Comm., NIGMS, National Institutes of Health, 1967-71
 Ad Hoc Member, BBCA Study Section, NIH, June 1989
 NIH Reviewers Reserve, 1995-99
 Member, BBCA Study Section, NIH, 1998-
 Member, Technical Advisory Panel, Xerox Corp., 1969-71; 1974-79
 Member, Board of Governors, Weizmann Institute, Rehovoth, Israel, 1970-1997; Emeritus, 1997-
 Consultant to DuPont Co., 1959-69; Merck & Co., 1964-70; Xerox Corp., 1969-84; Bendix Corp., 1982-83;
        Monsanto, 1983-93 ; Polygen Corp., 1984-88; Marlstone Corp., 1988-89; Ciba-Geigy (Novartis), 1988- ;
        Marion Merrell Dow (Hoechst Marion Roussel), 1995-
 Member, Chemistry Department Visiting Comm., Brookhaven National Lab., 1972-74; Chairman, 1974
 Member, Commission on Molecular Biophys., Intntl. Union for Pure and Applied Biophys., 1967-69
 Member, Commission on Macromolecular Biophys., Intntl. Union for Pure and Applied Biophys., 1969-75; President,
        1972-75
 Member Commission on Subcellular and Macromolecular Biophys., Intntl. Union for Pure and Applied Biophys., 1975-81
 Representative of IUPAB to Macromolecular Division, IUPAC, 1969-84
 Representative of IUPAC to International Union of Biochemistry, 1970-73
 Representative of Amer. Chem. Soc. on U.S. National Committee for IUPAC, 1974-79
 Co-editor, "Molecular Biology" Series, Academic Press, 1961-1986
 Member, Advisory Board, "Biopolymers", 1963-
 Member, Editorial Advisory Board, "Biochemistry", 1969-74; 1985-
 Member, Editorial Board, "Physiological Chemistry and Physics", 1969-75
 Member, Editorial Board, "Mechanochemistry and Motility", 1970-71
 Correspondent, "PAABS Revista", 1971-73
 Member, Editorial Board, "Thrombosis Research", 1972-76
 Member, Editorial Board, "Biophysical Journal", 1973-75
 Member, Editorial Board, "Macromolecules", 1973-84
 Member, Editorial Board, "Computers and Chemistry", 1974-84
 Member, Editorial Board, "International Journal of Peptide and Protein Research", 1978-1996
 Member, Editorial Board, “Journal of Peptide Research”, 1997-
 Member, Editorial Board, "Journal of Computational Chemistry", 1980-
 Member, Editorial Board, "Journal of Protein Chemistry", 1982-
 Member, Editorial Board, "Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry", 1983-87
 Member, Editorial Board, "Structural Chemistry", 1989-93
 Member, Editorial Board, "Computational Polymer Science", 1991-1995
 Member, Editorial Board, “Computational and Theoretical Polymer Science”, 1996-2000
 Member, Editorial Board, "Journal of Biomolecular NMR", 1991-
 Member, Advisory Board, "Journal of Biomedical Science", 1994-
 Member, Editorial Advisory Board, "Journal of the American Chemical Society", 1995-2000
  Member, Editorial Board “Electronic Journal of Theoretical Chemistry (Structure & Interactions)”, 1996-97
 Member, Advisory Editorial Board, “International Journal of Quantum Chemistry”, 1997-
 Member, Am. Chem. Soc., Am. Soc. Biol. Chem., Biophys. Soc., Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi,
        Phi Lambda Upsilon, Alpha Chi Sigma

 Author of "Protein Structure", "Theory of Helix-Coil Transitions in Biopolymers", and 1,075 articles in scientific journals

 Research:  Physical Chemistry of Proteins and other Macromolecules, Chemistry of Blood Clotting and Growth Factors, Structure of Water and Dilute Aqueous Solutions.