Background
Lerner, I. Michael was born on May 15, 1910 in Harbin, Manchuria. Son of Michael and Cecelia (Sudja) Lerner.
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I. Michael Lerner
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Bachelor of Agricultural Science, U. B.C., 1931, M.S.A., 1932, Doctor of Science (honorary), 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, 1936. Honorary Doctor of Science, U. Edinburgh, 1973.
Career
Came to the United States, 1933, naturalized, 1942. Instructor poultry husbandry University of California at Berkeley, 1936-1941, assistant professor, 1941-1946, associate professor, 1946-1951, professor, geneticist in experiment station, 1951-1958, department chairman genetics, 1958-1963, professor genetics, 1958-1973, professor emeritus, 1973-1977. Research geneticist Institute Personality Assessment and Research, 1970-1976.
Canadian Club lecturer U.B.C., 1950. Specializing in population and behavior genetics, selection, evolution. Guggenheim fellow, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1948, Pavia, Italy, 1953, 57.
Fellow Stanford Center Advanced Study Behavorial Sciences, 1967-1968. Recipient Poultry Science Research prize, 1937, Belling prize, 1940, Borden award and medal, 1951, Mendel Memorial medal Czechoslovakian Academy Science, 1965, Weldon Memorial medal University of Oxford, 1969.
Membership
Fellow Eugenics Society, Poultry Science Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member National Academy Sciences, American Society Naturalists (vice president 1957), American Philosophical Society, Society Study Evolution (president 1964), Italian Society Genetics, Permanent International Committee Genetics (secretary 1953-1958, United States representative 1958-1963), American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Society Human Genetics, American Genetics Association, Academy Georgofili Florence (foreign. Member), American Eugenics Society, Behavior Genetics Society.
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Married Ruth A. Stuart, June 9, 1937.
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