Born: Bialystok, Poland, 26.08.1903
Died: Rehovot, Israel, 18.04.2000
Married: Doris L. Bernstein who was born in Liverpool, England on 26.02.1904 and died in Rehovot on 13.09.1985.
Two daughters: Tirtsa Cohen, Rehovot, Israel
Hanna Szoke, Fremont, CA, USA
Education: Elementary schools in Antwerp, Belgium (1907-14)
Bristol Grammar School, England (1914-20)
Leeds University, England (1920-26)
Degrees: B.Sc. with honors – Physiology and Biochemistry (1923)
M.B., Ch.B. (1926)
M.D. with distinction (1930)
M.Sc. (1936)
Fields of research: Biological and metabolic aspects of carcinogenesis and leukaemogenesis. Radiation biology
FELLOWSHIPS AND APPOINTMENTS
1927-36: Riley-Smith Research Fellow, Department of Experimental Biology & Cancer Research, University of Leeds
1936-40: Beit Memorial Research Fellow, Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
1938-48: In charge of Oxford University Research Centre of the British Empire Cancer Campaign
1940-49: Departmental demonstrater, and later University demonstrater (lecturer) at the Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
1948-50: "Special Fellow" at the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA (on leave from Oxford University)
1950-71: Head of the Department of Experimental Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Jack Cotton Professor of Cancer Research
1951-71: (part-time) Visiting Professor of Oncology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
1966: Visiting Professor at the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, TX, USA. (6 months)
1971: Scholar-in-Residence, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. (6 months)
1971: Professor Emeritus, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
ELECTIONS TO LEARNED SOCIETIES, AWARDS, etc.
1952-59: Member of the Israel Research Council
1954-66: Member of the Cancer Research Commission of the International Union Against Cancer
1954- : Honorary member of Sociedad de Biologia de Santiago de Chile
1955-75: Chairman, Israel Cancer Association
1956- : Bronze Medal, Belgian Chemical Society
1957- : Foreign corresponding member of the Societa Italiana di Cancerologia
1958-60: Member of the Israel Council for Higher Learning
1958- : Honorary Life Member of the New York Academy of Sciences
1959- : Founding Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
1959: Weizmann Prize of Honor for Biological Sciences, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel
1960: Hamdi Saud Aknar Konferansi Lecture & Bronze Medal of the Turkish Cancer Association
1961- : Charter Member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences
1965-68: Member of the Scientific Council of the International Agency for Research on Cancer ( Lyon )
1966-70: Member of the Council of the International Union Against Cancer
1966: Rothschild Prize for Biology (Israel)
1967: Brodetsky Memorial Lecture, Leeds University, Leeds, England
1969- : Honorary Member of the American Association for Cancer Research
1974: Israel Prize for Biology
1978: Ernst W. Bertner Memorial Award & Medal, University of Texas System Cancer Center, Houston, TX
1980: Alfred P. Sloan Prize and Gold Medal, General Motors Cancer Foundation
Last updated September 23rd, 2005