Background
Youngken, Heber Wilkinson was born on October 31, 1885 in Richland Tp., Buckinghamshire County, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles Eugene and Marian W. (Wilkinson) Youngken.
Youngken, Heber Wilkinson was born on October 31, 1885 in Richland Tp., Buckinghamshire County, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles Eugene and Marian W. (Wilkinson) Youngken.
Graduate in Pharmacy, Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia, 1905. Medical student same, 1909-1911. Bachelor of Arts, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1909, Master of Arts, 1912.
Master of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1914, Doctor of Philosophy, 1915.
Honorary the Master of Philisophy, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 1919. Honorary Doctor of Science, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, 1934.
Pharmaceutical Doctorate. (honorary), Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, 1956.
Assistant professor botany and pharmacognosy, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, 1916-1917, acting professor, 1917-1918, professor, 1918-1923. Professor biology, Ursinus College, 1918-1919. Professor pharmacognosy and biology and department chairman of materia medica, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, 1923-1951, research professor pharmacognosy and botany, 1951-1957, emeritus professor of pharmacognosy and botany, since 1957.
Ebert medallist, 1925, 31.
Chairman of Commission on pharmaceutical botany and pharmacognosy. National Research Council, 1923-1942.
Executive secretary of Section K, 4th International Botanical Congress, 1926. Honorary foreign member Academy Pharmaceutical, Brazil.
Member sub-committee tests and standards and general tests Revision Committee United States Pharmacopoeia, member convention, since 1920.
Chairman East. L. Newcomb Memorial awards committee American Foundation Pharmaceutical Education.
Member Academy Pharmaceutical, Brazil. Member sub-committee tests and standards and general tests Revision Committee United States Pharmacopoeia. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Member American Pharmaceutical Association (chairman scientific section 1921-1922.
Club, Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire (U.S.) State pharmaceutical associations, Sigma Xi, Rho Chi, Phi Chi, Beta Phi Sigma, Kappa Psi (Grand Regent 1937-1941). Member Philadelphia Botanical.
Club.
Married Clara Maude Eastman, September 12, 1911. Children: Marion East., Heber West., Flora East., Eugene West. Demonstrator biology and pharmacognosy, 1909-1911, instructor, 1911-1912, assistant professor, 1912-1914, adjunct professor, 1914-1916, professor, 1916, Medico-Chirurgical College.