Background
Sizer, Irwin Whiting was born on April 4, 1910 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Annie Jenkins (Scott) Sizer.
Sizer, Irwin Whiting was born on April 4, 1910 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Annie Jenkins (Scott) Sizer.
AB, Brown University, 1931. Doctor of Science (honorary), Brown University, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, 1935.
Teaching fellow, Rutgers University, 1931-1935;
director oyster pest control investgation for New Jersey, United States Bureau Fisheries, 1935;
instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1935-1939;
assistant professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939-1942;
associate professor physiology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1942-1956;
professor biochemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1956;
Executive officer biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1954-1955;
acting head biological department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1955-1956;
head biological department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1956-1967;
dean Graduate School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967-1975;
consultant resource development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975-1985. President Whitaker Health Science Fund, Inc., 1974-1984. Consultant in resource development Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992-1995.
Board directors Boston Federal Savings Bank, Lexington, Massachusetts;consultant in biochemistry to pharmaceutical industry Ford Foundation, 1990-1995. Director Biological Sciences Curriculum Study.
Trustee, board governors Rutgers University. Trustee Boston biomedical Research Institute. Corporation member Lesley College.
Trustee Museum of Science, Theobold Smith Research Institute. Fellow American Academy Arts and Science, American Institute Chemists. Member American Physiological Society, American Society Zoologists, American Society Biological Chemists, American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi (president Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1958-1959), Phi Beta Kappa (honorary member), Delta Omega.
Married Helen Whitcomb, June 23, 1935. 1 child, Meredith Ann (Mistress Twomey).