Biographical Memoirs: Volume 62 (1993)
Chapter: HONORS
German by Dr. P. M. Gresshoff), Dr. D. R. Smith (D.R.S.), Professor G. S. Stent (G.S.S.), and Dr. J. D. Watson (J.D.W.).
(The initials in brackets indicate the sources of quotations in the text.)
FAMILY
Married: 2 August 1941, Pasadena, California, to Mary Adeline Bruce (born 1917 in Butte, Montana, U.S.A.), daughter of James Latimer Bruce, mining engineer, and Leah Hills Bruce.
Children: son, Jonathan, born 1947 in Nashville, Tennessee;
daughter, Nicola, born 1949 in Pasadena, California;
son, Tobias, born 1960 in Pasadena, California;
daughter, Ludina, born 1962 in Cologne, W. Germany.
HONORS
Election to
U.S. National Academy of Sciences—1949
American Academy of Arts and Sciences—1959
Royal Danish Academy—1960
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina—1963
Royal Society of London, Foreign Member—1967
Académie des Sciences, Paris, Associé Étranger—1979
Honorary Degrees
Copenhagen University—1965: Doctor of Philosophy
University of Chicago—1967: Doctor of Science
Heidelberg University—1968
Harvard University—1971: Doctor of Science
Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, U.S.A.—1977: Doctor of Science
University of Southern California—1981: Doctor of Science Göttingen University—1981: Doctor of Philosophy (to commemorate 50th anniversary of first degree)
Awards
Kimber Medal for Genetics (U.S. Academy of Science)—1964
Gregor Mendel Medal (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher-Leopoldina)—1967
Gross-Horwitz Prize (Columbia University)—1969
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine—1969
