Howard Schachman

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

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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.

References

1. ^ Howard K. Schachman to UC President Robert Sproul, November 1, 1950, accessed 2006-09-11

• Howard K. Schachman (2006). "From 'Publish or Perish' to 'Patent and Prosper'". Journal of Biological Chemistry 281 (11): 6889–6903.
• Howard K. Schachman (2000). "New Secrecy in Science: Government-Imposed to Self-Imposed", in Albert H. Teich, Stephen D. Nelson, Ceilia McEnaney & Stephen J. Lita: AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2000. American Association for the Advancement of Science.