Background
Wilson, James Walter was born on June 17, 1896 in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. Son of James Walter and Genieve Beatrice (Knight) Wilson.
Wilson, James Walter was born on June 17, 1896 in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. Son of James Walter and Genieve Beatrice (Knight) Wilson.
Bachelor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1918. Doctor of Philosophy, 1921. Doctor of Education (honorary), Rhode Island College of Education, 1960.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Providence College, College Holy Cross, 1963.
Mistress R. Weed). Instructor in biology, Brown University, 1921-1922. Assistant professor, 1922-1929, associate professor, 1929-1944, professor, 1944-1945. Frank L. Day professor of biology, 1945-1969, professor emeritus of biology, chairman of the 1944-1960.
Instructor of biological laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1919-1924.
Member Corporation Rhode Island Hospital, Corporation of Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Member President's Conference on Heart and Cancer, 1961. Chairman morphology and genetics study section, United States.P.H.S., 1949-1954. Member Miriam Hospital, Rhode Island Hospital.
Member visiting committee Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1949-1955, chairman, 1950-1955.
Member Committee Consultant Medical Research to Senate Appropriations Committee, 1959-1960.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy Science, American Academy Arts, Sciences. Member American Society Zoological (president 1953-1954).
Gerontological Society, American Academy Neurologists, Biometric Society, Society for Cell Biology, American Physiological Society, American Association Anatomists, Histochem.
Society (president 1953-1954), Society Experimental Biological, Medicine, Society Study of Development and Growth. American Microscopical Society, American Society Cancer Research. History of Science Society, Biological Stain Commission, Genetics Society American, American Society Naturalists, American Cancer Society (advising committee personnel research 1956-1959, research advisory council 1959-1964), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Hope Burgess, June 22, 1922.