Claude Alvin Villee

Background

Villee, Claude Alvin was born on February 9, 1917 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Claude Alvin and Mary Elizabeth (Nestel) Villee.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Franklin and Marshall College, 1937; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California-Berkeley, 1941; AM (honorary), Harvard University, 1957; Doctor of Science (honorary), Franklin and Marshall College, 1991.

Career

Research fellow, University of California at Berkeley, 1941-1942; assistant professor, U. North Carolina, 1942-1945; member of faculty, Harvard, since 1946; professor biological chemistry, Harvard, 1962-1963; Andelot professor biological chemistry, Harvard, since 1964; fellow, Winthrop House, since 1957. Technical aide National Academy Sciences, 1946-1947. Research associate Boston Lying inHosp., 1950-1966.

Director laboratory reproductive biology Boston Hospital, since 1966. Distinguished visiting professor U. Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1974, 77. Visiting professor Mahidol U., Bangkok, Thailand, 1974.

Consultant National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, National Foundation/March of Dimes. Member of national advisory child health and human development council National Institutes of Health. President International Symposium Foeto-Placental unit, Milan, 1968.

Achievements

• Claude Alvin Villee has been listed as a noteworthy Biochemistry educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Control of Ovulation; Proceedings of the Conference Held at Endicott House, Dedham, Massachusetts, 1960

    ( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultura...)

  • Introduction to Animal Biology

    (GREAT CONDITION USED GENTLY)

  • Fallout from the Population Explosion
  • The placenta and fetal membranes

Membership

Trustee Forsythe Dental Center, Boston, Winsor School. Trustee, vice president International Foundation for Bio-chemical Endocrinology, since 1980. Board directors Moors Association, Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Gynecological Society (honorary), American College Obstetrics and Gynecology (honorary), Society for Gynecological Investigation (honorary), Serbian Academy Arts and Sciences (honorary). Member Moors Association Falmouth (president), American Society Biological Chemists, Endocrine Society American, Bio-chemical Society (England), American Chemical Society, Society Development Biology, Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass).

Connections

Married Dorothy Theresa Balzer, January 21, 1952. Children: Claude Alvin III, Stephen Eric Fortney, Suzanne Villee, Charles Andrew.

Father:

Claude Alvin Villee

Mother:

Mary Elizabeth (Nestel) Villee

Spouse:

Dorothy Theresa Balzer

child:

Claude Alvin III Villee

child:

Stephen Eric Fortney Villee

child:

Charles Andrew Villee

child:

Suzanne Villee