Background
Handler, Philip was born on August 13, 1917 in New York City. Son of Jacob and Lena (Heisen) Handler.
Handler, Philip was born on August 13, 1917 in New York City. Son of Jacob and Lena (Heisen) Handler.
Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1936. Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois, 1939. Doctor of Science, Case Western Reserve University.
Doctor of Science, Carnegie-Mellon University. Doctor of Science, Colorado State University. Doctor of Science, University North Carolina.
Doctor of Science, Yeshiva University. Doctor of Science, Hahneman Medical College. Doctor of Science, Medical College Wisconsin.
Doctor of Science, Temple University. Doctor of Science, New York Medical College. Doctor of Science, George Washington University.
Doctor of Science, Michigan State University. Doctor of Science, Polytechnic Institute New York. Doctor of Science, University Alaska.
Doctor of Science, Butler University. Doctor of Science, Southwestern at Memphis. Doctor of Science, University Illinois.
Doctor of Science, University Maryland. Doctor of Science, University Florida. Doctor of Philosophy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Doctor of Laws, City University of New York. Doctor of Laws, Emory University. Doctor of Letters, Nova University.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Florida State University.
Instructor, Duke U., 1939-1940;
associate, Duke U., 1940-1941;
assistant professor physiology and nutrition, Duke U., 1942-1945;
associate professor biochemistry, Duke U., 1945-1950;
professor, department chairman, Duke U., 1950-1969;
James B. Duke professor biochemistry, Duke U., 1961-1969;
director Atomic Energy Commission fellowship training program, 1948-1953;
Distinguished professor science, George Washington University, 1970-1981. President National Academy Sciences, Washington, 1969-1981. Director Squibb-Beechnut, Inc., 1966-1969.
Consultant United States Public Health Service, Atomic Energy Commission, National Research Council, VA. Chairman biochemistry study section National Institutes of Health, 1956-1958, national advising committee research facilities and resources, 1963-1967. Member of national advisory health council United States Public Health Service, 1958-1961.
Member biology and medicine research facilities panel National Science Foundation, 1958-1960, member divisional committee for biology and medicine, 1960-1962, member of national science board, 1962-1974, chairman, 1966-1970. Chairman of Commission radiation and aging National Institutes of Health, also Atomic Energy Commission, 1957-1961. Member President'sSci.
Advisory Committee, 1964-1968, 69-72, President's Commision on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke, 1964-1965. Member of advisory commission on environmental health United States Public Health Service Surgeon General, 1966-1967.
Trustee Foundation Advanced Education Medical Sciences, 1964-1972, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Quantitative Biology, 1963-1967, Rockefeller University, 1969-1981, Manpower Institute, 1971-1981. Board directors Multiple Sclerosis Society, 1973-1981, Nutrition Foundation, 1973-1981, Hebrew University, 1972-1981. Board visitors Graduate School, Yale University, Scripps Institute Metabolic Disease.
Visiting committee life science University Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins University. Member corporation Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 1974-1981, Marine Biology Laboratory, 1979-1981. Member Unitarian Service Committee, Medical Mission to Japan, 1951.
Member Committee on National Medal of Science, 1968-1981. Member American Society Biological Chemists (secretary 1953-1958, councilor 1958-1961, president 1962-1963), Federation American Societies Experimental Biology (executive committee 1959-1965, chairman board 1964-1965), National Academy of Sciences (president 1969-1981, chairman survey committee life science 1966-1970, council 1968-1981), American Institute Nutrition, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine (president Southeast section 1953-1954), American Chemical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences (C.B. Mayer award), American Philosophical Society, Royal Society Arts (honorary), American Institute Chemists (honorary), Swiss Academy of Sciences (honorary), Mexican Academy Medicine (honorary), Japanese Bio-chemical Society (honorary), German Academy Natural Sciences, Leopoldina (honorary), Cosmos Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Lucille Marcus, December 6, 1939. Children: Mark, Eric Paul.