Background
Schiff, Jerome Arnold was born on February 20, 1931 in Brooklyn. Son of Charles K. and Molly (Weinberg) Schiff.
Schiff, Jerome Arnold was born on February 20, 1931 in Brooklyn. Son of Charles K. and Molly (Weinberg) Schiff.
Bachelor in Biology and Chemistry, Brooklyn College (summer scholar invertebrate zoology Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory), 1952; Doctor of Philosophy in Botany and Biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 1956.
Predoctoral fellow, United States Public Health Service, 1954-1956;
fellow, Brookhaven National laboratories, summer 1956;
research associate biology, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1956-1957;
instructor, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1957-1958;
assistant professor, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1958-1961;
associate professor, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1961-1965;
professor biology, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, since 1966;
department chairman, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1972-1975;
Abraham and Etta Goodman professor biology, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, since 1974;
director, Institute Photobiology of Cells and Organelles, 1975-1987;
summer instructor experimental marine botany, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1971;
senior investigator exploitation marine botany, Marine Biological Laboratory, 1972-1974;
director programs, Experimental Marine Botany, 1974-1979. Consultant on development biology National Science Foundation, 1965-1968, consultant on metabolic biology, 1982-1986. Visiting professor Tel Aviv U., 1972, Hebrew U., 1972, Weizmann Institute, Israel, 1977.
Member biology grant review program United States-Israel Binat. Science.Found., since 1974. Member corporation Marine Biological Laboratory, since 1972.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Society Development Biology (secretary 1964-1966, member executive committee), American Society Biological Chemists, American Society Plant Physiologists (member executive committee 1972-1988, Distinguished Service award Northeast section 1989), Biophysics Society, International Phycological Society, Phycological Society of America, Society Cell Biology, Society General Microbiology, Society Protozoologists, American Society Microbiology, International Society Development Biologists, British Phycological Society, American Society Photobiology, Sigma Xi.
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