Background
Shock, Nathan Wetherill was born on December 25, 1906 in Lafayette, Indiana, United States.
Shock, Nathan Wetherill was born on December 25, 1906 in Lafayette, Indiana, United States.
Bachelor of Science, Purdue University, 1926. Master of Science, Purdue University, 1927. Honorary Doctor of Science, Purdue University, 1954.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1930. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Johns Hopkins University, 1981.
Research associate department pediatrics, instructor physiology, University of Chicago, 1930-1932; research associate, Institute Child Welfare assistant professor physiology, University of California at Berkeley, 1933-1941; with, National Institute on Aging National Institutes of Health, 1941-1976; science director, National Institute Aging, National Institutes of Health, 1975-1976; scientist emeritus, National Institute Aging, National Institutes of Health, 1977-1989; chief Gerontology Research Center, National Institutes of Health and Baltimore City Hospitals, 1941-1976. Visiting physiologist Francis Scott Key Medical Center from 1941.
Member Maryland Commission on Aging, 1967-1975. Member North American committee First Pan-American Gerontological Congress, Mexico City, 1956, American committee 4th International Congress on Gerontology, Merano, Italy, 1957. Fellow New York Academy of Sciences, American Psychological Association (president maturity and old age division 1952-1953, chairman research committee 1958-1964), American Heart Association (council circulation), American Physiological Society, Gerontological Society (secretary 1951-1958, president 1960, chairman publications committee 1969-1975).
Member International Association Gerontological Societies (governing board. President 1969-1971), Society Experimental Biology and Medicine (chairman Maryland section 1956), American Institute Biological Sciences (chairman committee basic biological research on aging 1955), American Geriatric Society, Society Research Child Development, Psychometric Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president section N-medical science 1959). Honorary member Socidad Argentina de GerontologĂa y Geriatria, British Society Research on Aging.
Married Margaret B. Truman, September 9, 1928. Children: Joseph B., John H.