Background
Gordon, Malcolm Stephen was born on November 13, 1933 in Brooklyn. Son of Abraham and Rose (Walters) Gordon.
Gordon, Malcolm Stephen was born on November 13, 1933 in Brooklyn. Son of Abraham and Rose (Walters) Gordon.
Bachelor with high honors, Cornell Univercity, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1958.
Instructor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1958-1960;
assistant professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1960-1965;
associate professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1965-1968;
professor biology, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1968;
director Institute Evolutionary and Environmental Biology,, University of California at Los Angeles, 1971-1976;
chairman interdependent committee Environmental Science Engineering Program,, University of California at Los Angeles, 1984-1988;
assistant director research, National Fisheries Center and Aquarium, unites states department of Interior, Washington, 1968-1969. Visiting professor zoology Chinese U. Hong Kong, 1971-1972. Member panel on marine biology, panel on oceanography President's Science Advisory Committee, 1965-1966.
Member of national advanced committee R/V Alpha Helix, Scripps Institute Oceanography, 1969-1973;member commission on Latimeria, NAS, 1969-1972. Member technical advising committee Santa Monica Bay Restoration Project, Environmental Protection Agency, since 1988. Member technical advisory group on milkfish reproduction Agency for International Development, 1984-1992.
Chairman Commision on Comparative Physiology, International Union Physiological Science, since 1993. Co-founder Institute of Environment, University of California at Los Angeles, 1997.
Active community organizations on environmental, civil liberties. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Physiological Society (executive committee public affairs 1989-1992, international physiological committee 2002-2005, 09-), Society Integrative Comparative Biology (chairman division ecology 1979-1980, chairman division comparative biochemistry physiology 1988-1989), Society Experimental Biology, International Union Physiological Science (council member since 2005, treasurer since 2007).
Married Diane M. Kestin, April 16, 1959 (divorced September 1973). 1 child, Dana Malcolm. Married Marjorie J. Weinzweig, January 28, 1976 (deceased March 1990).
Married Carol A. Cowen, July 19, 1992.