Harold Theodore Hammel

Background

Hammel, Harold Theodore was born on May 8, 1921 in Huntington, Indiana, United States. Son of Audry Harold and Ferne Jane (Wiles) Hammel.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Physics, Purdue University, 1943. Master of Science in Physics, Cornell University, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology, Cornell University, 1953.

Doctor of Science (honorary), Huntington College, 1999.

Career

Junior physicist, Los Alamos (New Mexico) Laboratory, 1944-1946; staff physicist, Los Alamos (New Mexico) Laboratory, 1948-1949; from instructor to assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1953-1961; associate professor, fellow John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, 1961-1968; professor Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 1968-1988; emeritus professor, University of California, San Diego, since 1988. Adjunct Professor physiology and biophysics Indiana U., Bloomington, since 1989. Foreign science member Max Planck Institute for Physiological & Clinical Research, since 1978.

United States senior scientist Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 1981.

Achievements

• Harold Theodore Hammel has been listed as a noteworthy physiology and biophysics educator, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, American Physiological Society (Fifth August Krogh Distinguished lectureship 1998, Honor award Environmental and Exercize section 1996), American Society Mammalogy, Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Connections

Married Dorothy King, December 29, 1948. Children: Nannette, Heidi.

Father:

Audry Harold Hammel

Mother:

Ferne Jane (Wiles) Hammel

Spouse:

Dorothy King

child:

Heidi Hammel

child:

Nannette Hammel