Howard Kapnek Schachmanhttps://www.jbc.org/content/291/37/19724 "On August 5, 2016, Howard Kapnek Schachman died."https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/in-memoriam/files/howard-k-schachman.html "Howard Kapnek Schachman, Professor" (December 5, 1918 – August 5, 2016) was a graduate school professor in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Early life Schachman was born in Philadelphia in 1918.The Centennial Record of the University of California By Verne A. Stadtman, University of California Print. Department, 1967 In high school, he was interested in sociopolitical issues, inspired by his mother. He initially pursued liberal arts in college while studying to become a rabbi, before switching to chemical engineering in a university. He transferred from the University of Pennsylvania to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 1939 with a chemical engineering degree.
Graduate studies 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.Howard K. Schachman to UC President Robert Sproul, November 1, 1950, accessed 2006-09-11 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.
Teaching career Each spring, he taught the MCB 293C course on Ethical Conduct of Research required for NIH-funded students.MCB 293C course homepage He died at the age of 97 on August 5, 2016.UC Berkeley biochemist dies at 97
Personal life While at Princeton he married Ethel Lazarus.
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External links Home page at the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley death announcement