Background
Laufer, Hans was born on October 18, 1929 in Germany. Son of Sol and Margarete (Freundlich) Laufer.
educator developmental biologist
Laufer, Hans was born on October 18, 1929 in Germany. Son of Sol and Margarete (Freundlich) Laufer.
Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1952. Master of Arts, Brooklyn College, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy (James fellow), Cornell University, 1958.
Research and teaching assistant Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1953-1957. National Research Council fellow Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1957-1959. Assistant professor biology Johns Hopkins University, 1959-1965.
Associate professor University Connecticut, Storrs, 1965-1972, professor, 1972—1998, research professor, since 1998. Visiting professor Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 1972, Charles University, Prague, 1974, Yale University, 1980, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1988, Harvard University, 1989-1990, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, 1997. Rosenstiel visiting scholar Brandeis University, 1974.
Participant National Academy of Sciences-Czechoslovak Academy exchange program, 1974, 77. Ad hoc member study section tropical medicine National Institutes of Health, 1981, member, 1982-1985. Conklin Memorial fellow Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1956, Lalor fellow, 1962, 63, member staff, embryology course, 1968-1972, member corporation, summer investigator, since 1962, corporation trustee, 1978-1982, member executive committee, 1979-1980.
Visiting scholar Case Western Reserve University, 1962. Member National Science Foundation-North Atlantic Treaty Organization Fellowship Review Panel, 1974, 76.
Fellow(life) American Association for the Advancement of Science (chairman section biology 1975), Royal Entomology Society London (foreign fellow). Member International Society Development Biology, International Society Invertebrate Reproduction and Development (member executive council since 1995, vice president 1995-2008), Research Councils (national board on graduate education of conference board 1971-1975), American Society Zoology (chairman division developmental biology 1981-1982), Society Development Biology, American Society Cell Biology, European Society Comparative Endocrinology, American Association Advancement Aging Research, International Society Differentiation, Tissue Culture Association (council 1979-1982), World Aquaculture Society, Connecticut Academy of Sciences and Engineering.
Married Evelyn Green, October 31, 1953 (deceased May 2001). Children: Jessica, Marc, Leonard.