Background
Robertson, James David was born on October 13, 1922 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. Son of Floyd Earl and Gladys (Williams) Robertson.
Robertson, James David was born on October 13, 1922 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. Son of Floyd Earl and Gladys (Williams) Robertson.
Bachelor of Science, University Alabama, 1942. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1945. Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1952.
Laboratory teaching assistant biology, U. Alabama, 1940-1942;
intern, 4th Medical Service Harvard, Boston City Hospital, 1945-1946;
part-time practice medicine, specializing internal medicine, Lowndsborough and Hayneville, Alabama, 1947-1948;
assistant physician, United States Veterans Administration Hospital., Montgomery, Alabama, 1947-1948;
assistant physician medical department, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1948-1949;
research fellow, American Cancer Society, 1949-1952;
assistant professor pathology and oncology, Medical School U. Kansas, Kansas City, 1952-1955;
honorary research associate (reader level) department anatomy, U. College London, England., 1955-1960;
associate biophysicist, biophysicist research laboratory, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, 1960-1966;
assistant professor neuropathology, Medical School Harvard, 1960-1964;
associate professor (with tenure), Medical School Harvard, 1964-1966;
professor, department chairman anatomy, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1966-1988;
James B. Duke professor anatomy, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1975-1988;
chairman emeritus department anatomy, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1988-1995;
James B. Duke professor neurobiology and cell biology, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1988-1992;
James B. Duke professor neurobiology emeritus, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1992-1995. Visiting professor Institute Physiological Chemistry, U. Wuerzburg, Federal Republic of Germany, 1978-1979, other universities. Chairman of the executive committee International Cell Membrane Confs., Frascati, Italy, 1965-1970, member Executive Committee, 1970-1995.
Member cell biology study secretary National Institutes of Health, 1967-1971, ad hoc, 1975, 87-95. Now consultant; consultant National Science Foundation, Avco Corporation, 1963-1964, Department Defense. Past member panel IV International Cell Research Organisation.
Member of faculty 2d Curso Latinam. de Micros. Electronica, U. Chile, 1974. Member external visiting committee Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, 1978.
Consultant department defense, chairman search committee forchair anatomy department Uniformed Superior vena cava syndrome University of the Health Sciences, 1975. Member external visiting committee in biology Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1978-1981. 1st Pomerat Memorial lecturer University Texas, 1966.
Ferris lecturer Yale University, 1977. Damonlectr. U. Connecticut, 1975. Distinguished lecturer Tulane University, 1975.
Ferris lecturer Yale University, 1977. Otto Mortenson lecturer University of Wisconsin, 1977. Cummings Memorial lecturer Tulane University, 1984.
George Harvey Miller Distinguished lecturer in anatomy University of Illinois Medical School, 1988.
Charter member Searle Scholars Selection Committee, 1981-1984. Member external advisory committee High Voltage Electron Microscopy Facility, University Colorado, Boulder, 1985-1992. Trustee North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, 1985-1986.
Served to lieutenant (junior grade), Medical Corps United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1945, 48-49. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Electron Microscope Society of America (council 1983-1985, president 1984), American Association Anatomists, Association Anatomy, Cell Biology and Neurological Biology College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (chairman founding committee), Anatomical Society Great Britain and Ireland, Physiological Society, Research Defense Society, International Association Cell Biology, Biophysics Society, Neurochem. Society, Society Neurosci., North Carolina Society Neurosci (president 1987-1988), Pan American Association Anatomists, Southeastern Electron Microscopy Society, Southern Society Anatomists, American Society Zoology, Society Indiana Scholars, British Biophysics Society, American Society Cell Biology, Society Development Biology, International Neurochem.
Society, American Crystal. Association, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Eta Sigma.
Married Doris Elizabeth Kohler, October 21, 1946. Children– Karen Lee, Elizabeth Ann, James David.