Howard Maer Lenhoff

Background

Lenhoff, Howard Maer was born on January 27, 1929 in North Adams, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles and Goldie Sarah Lenhoff.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Coe College, 1950; Honorary Doctor of Science, Coe College, 1976; Doctor of Philisophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1955.

Career

United States Public Health Service fellow, Loomis Laboratory, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1954-1956; visiting lecturer, Howard U., Washington, 1957-1958; research associate, George Washington University, Washington, 1957-1958; postdoctoral fellow, Carnegie Institution, Washington, 1958; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Miami, 1958-1963; professor biology, director Laboratory for Quantitative Biology, U. Miami, Coral Gables, 1963-1969; professor biological science, University of California, Irvine, 1969-1992; professor political science, University of California, Irvine, 1986-1992; associate dean biological science, University of California, Irvine, 1969-1971; dean graduate division, University of California, Irvine, 1971-1973; faculty assistant to vice chancellor of student affairs, University of California, Irvine, 1986-1988, 90-96; chair faculty senate, University of California, Irvine, 1988-1990; professor emeritus, research professor, University of California, Irvine, since 1993. Visiting scientist, Louis Lipsky fellow Weizmann Institute Science, Rehovot, Israel, 1968-1969. Visiting professor chemical engineering, Rothschild fellow Israel Institute Technology, 1973-1974.

Visiting professor Hebrew U., Jerusalem, spring 1970, fall1971, 77-78. Hubert Humphrey Institute fellow Ben Gurion U., Beersheva, Israel, 1981. Senior research fellow Jesus College, U. Oxford, 1988.

Director Nelson Research & Development Company, Irvine, 1971-1973. Board directors BioProbe International, Inc., Tustin, California, 1983-1989, Chairman of the Board, 1983-1986.

Achievements

• Howard Maer Lenhoff has been listed as a noteworthy academic administrator, activist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Hydra and the Birth of Experimental Biology, 1744 Abraham Trembley's Memoires Co
  • H. M. Lenhoff: Enzyme-Mediated Immunoassay (Paperback); 2012 Edition
  • Hydra and the Birth of Experimental Biology, 1744: Abraham Trembley's Memoires Concerning the Polyps
  • By Sylvia G. Lenhoff Hydra and the Birth of Experimental Biology, 1744: Abraham Trembley's Memoires Concerning the Polyps (1st First Edition) Hardcover

Membership

Vice chairman Southern California division American Association professors for Peace in Middle East,1972-1980. Board directors American Association for Ethiopian Jews, 1974-1993, president, 1978-1982. Board of Governors Israel Bonds Orange County, California, 1974-1980, Dade County Heart Association, Miami, 1958-1961, Southern California Technion Society, 1976.

President Hillel Council of Orange County, 1976-1978. National chairman faculty division State of Israel Bonds, 1976. Member science advisory board American Friends of Weizman Institute Science, 1980-1984.

Board directors Hi Hopes Identity Discovery Foundation, Anaheim, California, 1982-1987, president of the board Governors, 1983-1985, William Syndrome Foundation, trustee, 1992, president, board directors, 1993-1995, executive vice president, since 1995. Vice president education Williams Syndrome Association, 1994, board directors, 1993-1994. First lieutenant United States Air Force, 1956-1958.

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Society Physics and Natural History of Swiss Academy Sciences (honorary), American Chemical Society, American Biophysics Society, American Society Zoologists, History of Science Society, American Society Cell Biologists, American Society Biological Chemists, Biophysics Society, Society General Physiologists, Society Growth and Development.

Connections

Married Sylvia Grossman, June 20, 1954. Children: Gloria, Bernard.

Father:

Charles Lenhoff

Mother:

Goldie Sarah Lenhoff

Spouse:

Sylvia Grossman

child:

Gloria Lenhoff

child:

Bernard Lenhoff