Background
SCHMITT, Francis was born on November 23, 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of Otto Franz and Clara Elizabeth (Senniger) Schmitt.
neuroscientist emeritus educator
SCHMITT, Francis was born on November 23, 1903 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of Otto Franz and Clara Elizabeth (Senniger) Schmitt.
Washington University, St. Louis, 1924. Doctor of Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis, 1927. Postgraduate (National Research Council fellow), University California, 1928.
Postgraduate (National Research Council fellow), University College, London, 1928. Postgraduate (National Research Council fellow), Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Berlin-Dahlem, 1929. Doctor of Science (honorary), Johns Hopkins, 1950.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Washington University, 1952. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Chicago, 1957. Doctor of Science (honorary), Valparaiso University, 1959.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Michigan State University, 1968. Doctor of Science (honorary), New York State Medical College, 1971. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1981.
Doctor of Medicine honoris causa, University Gothenburg, Sweden, 1964. Doctor of Laws honoris causa, Wittenberg University, 1966. Doctor of Laws honoris causa, Juniata College, 1968.
Assistant professor zoology Washington University, St. Louis, 1929-1934, associate professor, 1934-1938, professor, 1938-1941, head department, 1940-1941. Professor biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1941, head department biology, 1942-1955, institute professor, 1955-1969, emeritus, 1973-1995. Chairman Neuroscis. Research Foundation, Inc., 1962-1974, trustee, 1974-1995, chairman Neuroscience research program, 1962-1974, foundation scientist, Neuroscience research program, 1974-1995.
Member National Academy of Sciences, 1948-1995. Member National Advisory Health Council, United States Public Health Service, 1959-1963, National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council, 1969-1971. Member board scientific counselors NINCDS, National Institutes of Health, 1976-1979.
Member committee on neurobiology National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1945, committee on growth, 1946-1950, committee on radiation cataracts, 1949-1953, committee on atherosclerosis, 1953-1954, biological council, 1954-1956. Chairman National Institutes of Health study section on biophysics and biophysics chemistry, 1954-1958, other study programs. Holiday lecturer, Chicago, 1964, New Orleans, 1966.
Member fellowships for basic research committee Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1971-1978. Board science consultant Sloan-Kettering Institute Cancer Research, 1963-1972. Board science advisory committee New England Aquarium, 1967-1970.
National advisory council Marine biomedical Institute, University Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, 1973-1976. Harvey lecturer New York Academy Medicine, 1945, Ludwig Kast lecturer, 1959. Klopsteg lecturer Northwestern University, 1963.
Hooke lecturer University Texas, Austin, 1965. Iddles lecturer University New Hampshire, 1975. Ewing Halsell lecturer University Texas, San Antonio, 1977.
Regents lecturer University California, San Diego, 1978. Cecil and Ida Green lecturer University Texas, Galveston, 1980.
Author: The Never- Ceasing Search, 1990. Member editorial board Quarterly Review Biology, 1961-1983, Brain Research, 1966-1972, Annual Review Biophysics and Bioengring., 1970-1973.
Trustee Massachusetts General Hospital, 1947-1975, honorary trustee, 1975-1995. Visiting committee Harvard Division School, 1964-1968. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences (council 1950-1952, 64-65), American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences.
Member Society General Physiologists, Histochem. Society, American Philosophical Society (council 1964-1966, vice president 1972-1975), American Physiological Society, American Society Zoologists, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Society Growth and Development (treasurer 1945-1946, president 1947), American Leather Chemical Association, Society for Neuroscience, Neurochemistry Society, International Neurochemistry Society, Biophysics Society (councilor), Electron Microscope Society of America (director 1944-1947, president 1949, Distinguished Scientist award, 1986), Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Music.
Son of; married Barbara Hecker, June 18, 1927 (deceased). Children: David (deceased), Robert Hecker, Marion Schmitt Ellis.