Caryl Parker Parker Haskins

Background

HASKINS, Caryl was born on August 12, 1908 in Schenectady, New York, United States. Son of Caryl Davis and Frances Julia Parker.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1930. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1935. Doctor of Science, Tufts College, 1951.

Doctor of Science, Union College, 1955. Doctor of Science, Northeastern University, 1955. Doctor of Science, Yale University, 1958.

Doctor of Science, Hamilton College, 1959. Doctor of Science, George Washington University, 1963. Doctor of Laws, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1960.

Doctor of Laws, University Cincinnati, 1960. Doctor of Laws, Boston College, 1960. Doctor of Laws, Washington and Jefferson College, 1961.

Doctor of Laws, University Delaware, 1965. Doctor of Laws, Pace University, 1974.

Career

In the 1930s he was inspired by Alfred Lee Loomis to establish his own research facility. Along with Franklin South. Cooper, he founded the Haskins Laboratories, a private, non-profit research laboratory, in 1935. Affiliated with Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Union College in Schenectady, New York, Haskins conducted research in microbiology, radiation physics, and other fields in Cambridge, Master of Arts and Schenectady.

In 1939 Haskins Laboratories moved its center to New York City.

Seymour Hutner joined the staff to set up a research program in microbiology, genetics, and nutrition. In the 1940s Luigi Provasoli joined the Laboratories to set up a research program in marine biology which disbanded with his retirement in 1978.

Since the 1950s, the main focus of the research of Haskins Laboratories has been on speech and its biological basis. The main facility of Haskins Laboratories moved to New Haven, Connecticut in 1970 where it entered into affiliation agreements with Yale University and the University of Connecticut.

Haskins Laboratories continues to be a leading, multidisciplinary laboratory with an international scope that does pioneering work on the science of the spoken and written word Haskins served as President, Research Director, and Chairman of the Board of Haskins Laboratories, 1935-"87.

Director, East.I. du Pont de Nemours, 1971-"81 and Research Professor, Union College, 1937-"55. In 1956, he was appointed to the Presidency of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a position he held until 1971. He was also President of the Sigma Xi society in 1967-"68.

He remained a Trustee of Carnegie Institution and of Haskins Laboratories, as well as Trustee Emeritus of the National Geographic Society until his death.

Achievements

• Caryl Parker Haskins has been listed as a notable Scientist, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The scientific revolution and world politics (The Elihu Root lectures)
  • Search for Understanding

Membership

Trustee Carnegie Corporation New York, 1955-1980, honorary trustee, since 1980, chairman board, 1975-1980. Trustee Rand Corporation, 1955-1965, 66-75, advisory trustee since 1988. Fellow Yale Corporation, 1962-1977.

Regent Smithsonian Institution, 1956-1980, regent emeritus, since 1980, member executive committee, 1958-1980. Board directors Council Foreign Relations, 1961-1975, Population Council, 1955-1980. Board directors Educational Testing Service, 1958-1961, 67-71, chairman board, 1969-1971.

Trustee Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1960-1975, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1972-1978, Council on Library Resources, since 1965, Pacific Science Center Foundation, 1962-1972, Asia Foundation, since 1960, Marlboro College, 1962-1977, Wildlife Preservation Trust International, Inc., since 1976, National Humanities Center, since 1977. Trustee Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1964-1973, member council, since 1973. Board directors Franklin Book Programs, 1953-1958.

Member Save-The-Redwoods League, since 1943, member council, since 1955. Member visiting committees Harvard, Johns Hopkins. Board visitors Tulane University.

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (board directors 1971-1975), American Physical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Royal Entomological Society, Entomological Society of America, Pierpont Morgan Library. Member National Academy of Sciences, Genetics Society of America, Washington Academy of Sciences, National Geography Society (trustee 1964-1984, honorary trustee, since 1984, finance committee 1972-1985, committee on research and exploration since 1972, executive committee 1972-1984), Royal Society Arts (Benjamin Franklin fellow), Faraday Society, Metropolitan Museum Art, American Museum Natural History (trustee 1973-1989, board management 1973-1989), American Philosophical Society (councillor 1976-1978, 81-83), British Association for the Advancement of Science, Linnean Society London, International Institute Strategic Studies, Asia Society, Japan Society, Biophysics Society, New York Zoological Society, New York Academy of Sciences, Audubon Society, New York Botanical Garden, P.E.N., Pilgrims, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi (national president 1966-1968, director 1966-1983 ), Delta Sigma Rho, Omicron Delta Kappa. Clubs: Somerset (Boston), St. Botolph (Boston), Century (New York City), Yale (New York City), Mohawk (Schenectady), Metropolitan, Cosmos (Centennial award 1978, board management 1973-1976), Lawn (New Haven).

Interests

• Gardening, walking, traveling

Connections

Married Edna Ferrell, July 12, 1940.

Father:

Caryl Davis Haskins

Mother:

Frances Julia (Parker) Haskins

Spouse:

Edna Ferrell