Background
MacNichol, Edward Ford was born on October 24, 1918 in Toledo. Son of Edward Ford and Adelaide (Foster) MacN.
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Edward Ford MacNichol
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Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1941; student, University Pennsylvania, 1946-1948; Doctor of Philisophy, Johns Hopkins, 1952.
Career
Staff member radiation laboratory, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1941-1946;
from instructor to professor biophysics, Johns Hopkins, 1952-1968;
research biophysicist, assistant director, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1972-1976;
director, Laboratory Sensory Physiology, 1973-1984. Professor physiology Boston University Medical School, since 1973. Director National Institute Neurological Diseases and Stroke, 1968-1972.
Acting director National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, 1968-1969. Member visual science study section National Institutes of Health, 1963-1966. Member board science counsellors National Institute Neurological Disease, and Blindness, 1965-1968, chairman, since 1968.
Member United States National Committee Photobiology, 1966-1968, United States National Committee Pureand Applied Biophysics, 1966.
Achievements
Membership
Board of directors Deafness Research Foundation, 1973-1983, secretary, 1976-1978. Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Engineering in Biology and Medicine prize award 1965, Centennial medal 1984, editor translations biomedical engineering 1963-1965). Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, American Physiological Society, Biophysics Society, Society for Neurosci.
Connections
Married Anne Proctor Ayer, September 7, 1940. (deceased November 1996). Children: Edward Ford III, Anne (Mistress David A. Brownell).
Married Dorothy B. Thorne, April 5, 1998.
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American