Background
Powers, Dennis Alpha was born on May 4, 1938 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
Powers, Dennis Alpha was born on May 4, 1938 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
Bachelor, Ottawa University, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, University Kansas, 1970.
Atomic Energy Commission postdoctoral fellow, Argonne (Illinois) National Laboratory National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1971-1972; National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1971-1972; assistant professor biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1973-1979; associate professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1979-1982; professor biology, McCollum-Pratt professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1982-1989; director McCollum-Pratt Institute, department chairman biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1983-1988; acting director, Chesapeake Bay Institute, Shady Side, Maryland., 1984-1987; Harold A. Miller professor biological science, director Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford (California) U., since 1988. Principal research scientist Center Marine Biotechnology, U. Maryland., Baltimore, 1986-1989. Board advisors National Aqaurium, Baltimore.
Trustee Monterey Bay Aquarium. Board directors Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute With United States Marine Corps, 1957-1959, United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1959-1963. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, California Academy of Sciences, Japanese Society Promotion of Science Fellowship.
Member American Society Biochemistry and Molecular Biologists, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, American Chemical Society, American Society Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology (president editor-in-chief journal.), Society Study Evolution, Genetics Society, American Society Zoologists, Biophysics Society, New York Academy of Sciences, The Protein Society, American Society Biological Chemists, Sigma Xi.
S. Virginia (Ward) P. Married 1963 (divorced 1993). Children: Kathy M., Wendy R., Julie A.