John Julius Biesele

Background

Biesele, John Julius was born on March 24, 1918 in Waco, Texas, United States. Son of Rudolph Leopold and Anna Emma (Jahn) Biesele.

Education

Bachelor of Arts with highest honors, University Texas, 1939; Doctor of Philosophy, University Texas, 1942.

Career

Fellow International Cancer Research Foundation, University Texas, 1942—1943, Barnard Skin and Cancer Hospital, St. Louis, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1943—1944, instructor zoology, 1943—1944. Temporary research associate department genetics Carnegie Institution of Washington, Cold Spring Harbor, 1944—1946. Research associate biology department Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1946—1947.

Assistant Sloan-Kettering Institute Cancer Research, 1946—1947, research fellow, 1947, associate, 1947—1955, head cell growth section, division experimental chemotherapy, 1947—1958, member, 1955—1958, associate scientist division, 1959—1978. Assistant professor anatomy Cornell University Medical School, 1950—1952. Associate professor biology Sloan-Kettering division Cornell University Graduate School Medical Sciences, 1952—1955, professor biology, 1955—1958.

Professor zoology, member graduate faculty University Texas, Austin, 1958—1978, also member faculty College Pharmacy, 1969—1971, professor education, 1973—1978, professor emeritus zoology, 1978—1999. Professor emeritus section molecular cell and developmental biological University Texas School Biological Sciences, from 1999. Consultant cell biology M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, University Texas, Houston, 1958-1972.

Director Genetics Foundation, 1959-1978. Member cell biology study section National Institutes of Health, 1958-1963. Sigma Xi lecturer New York University Graduate School Arts and Sciences, 1957.

Mendel lecturer St. Peter's College, Jersey City, 1958. Featured speaker on first Earth Day, Old Westbury Campus of New York Institute of Technology, 1970. Mendel Club lecturer Canisius College, Buffalo, 1971.

Advisory committee research etiology of cancer American Cancer Society, 1961-1964, president Travis County unit, 1966, advisory committee on personnel for research, 1969-1973. Counsellor Cancer International Research Cooperative, Inc., 1962-1990. Cancer research training committee National Cancer Institute, 1969-1972.

General chairman Conference Advancement of Science and Mathematics Teaching, 1966.

Achievements

• John Julius Biesele has been listed as a noteworthy biologist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Mitotic Poisons and the Cancer Problem

Membership

Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences, Texas Academy of Sciences. Member American Association Cancer Research (director 1960-1963), American Society Cell Biology, American Institute Biological Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi (president Texas chapter 1963-1964), Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi.

Connections

Married Marguerite Calfee McAfee, July 29, 1943 (deceased 1991). Children: Marguerite Anne, Diana Terry, Elizabeth Jane. Married Esther Aline Eakin, March 9, 1992 (deceased, 2007).

Father:

Rudolph Leopold Biesele

Mother:

Anna Emma (Jahn) Biesele

Spouse:

Marguerite Calfee McAfee

Spouse:

Esther Aline Eakin

child:

Marguerite Anne Biesele

child:

Diana Terry Biesele

child:

Elizabeth Jane Biesele