- 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 theloyalty oath required by theRegents of the University of California duringMcCarthyism . [ [http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/archives_exhibits/loyaltyoath/symposium/schachman.html Howard K. Schachman to UC President Robert Sproul, November 1, 1950] , accessed 2006-09-11] In 1966, he was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1968 to theUnited 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. [ [http://mcb.berkeley.edu/courses/mcb293c/ MCB 293C course homepage] ]References
*
* cite book
author = Howard K. Schachman
editor = Albert H. Teich, Stephen D. Nelson, Ceilia McEnaney & Stephen J. Lita
title = AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2000
accessdate = 2006-09-11
year = 2000
publisher =American Association for the Advancement of Science
chapter = New Secrecy in Science: Government-Imposed to Self-Imposed
chapterurl = http://www.aaas.org/spp/yearbook/2000/ch27.pdf
quote =External links
* [http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/BMB/schachmanh.html Home page] at the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
