Background
Witschi, Emil was born on February 18, 1890 in Bern, Switzerland. Son of Johann and Elisabeth (Blank) Witschi.
Witschi, Emil was born on February 18, 1890 in Bern, Switzerland. Son of Johann and Elisabeth (Blank) Witschi.
Student State Teachers College and State University, Bern, Switzerland, 1905-1911. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Munich, 1913. Doctor of Medicine honoris causa, University Basel, 1960.
Rockefeller Foundation fellow, Yale, 1926, University of Chicago, 1926, University of California, 1927.
Came to the United States, 1926, naturalized, 1933. Teacher zoology and comparative anatomy, University of Basel, 1921-1923, lecturer experimental zoology, 1924-1927. Professor zoology, embryology and endocrinology, State University Iowa, 1927-1958, professor emeritus, 1958-1971.
Guest professor University of Tubingen, Germany, 1948-1949.
Visiting professor U. Paris, 1959, Yale, 1961, Taiwan University, 1962, Basel University, 1963-1967. Program specialist for reproducation physiology Ford Foundation, 1962-1967.
Senior scientist, biomedical division Population Council Rockefeller University, New York City, New York, 1967-1971.
Member permanent committee International Congress of Zoologists, Jubile Scientifique Sorbonne, 1959. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York, Idaho academies science, International Institute Embryology (Utrecht). Member German Academy Science, Swiss Society Natural Sciences, American Society Zoologists (president 1959, 60), American Association Anatomists, Endocrine Society, American Genetics Society, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Naturalists, Sigma Xi (tour lecturer 1960), Gamma Alpha.
Member Societe Zoologique France, Societe d’Endocrinologie Paris others
Member Swiss Genetics Society, others
Married Ida Martha Muehlestein, July 10, 1914. Children: Marianne, Hans Walter.