Philip Courtland Hanawalt

Background

Hanawalt, Philip Courtland was born on August 25, 1931 in Akron, Ohio, United States. Son of Joseph Donald and Lenore (Smith) Hanawalt.

Education

Student, Deep Springs College, 1950. Bachelor, Oberlin College, 1954. Doctor of Science (honorary), Oberlin College, 1997.

Master of Science, Yale University, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Seville, Spain.

Doctorate honoris causa, University Bio Bio, Concepcion, Chile, 2006. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Seville, Spain, 2008.

Career

Postdoctoral fellow University Copenhagen, Denmark, 1958-1960, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1960-1961. Research biophysicist, lecturer Stanford University, California, 1961-1965, associate professor, 1965-1970, professor, since 1970, Howard H. and Jessie T. Watkins university professor, 1997—2002, chairman department biological science, 1982-1989, Doctor Morris Herzstein professor biology, since 2009. Faculty department dermatology Stanford Medical School, since 1979.

Member Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center. Member physiological chemistry study section National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1966—1970, member chemical pathology study section, 1981—1984. Member science advisory committee American Cancer Society, New York City, 1972—1976, Council for Extramural Grants, 1998—2001.

Chairman 2d ad hoc senate committee on professoriate Stanford University, 1988—1990. Member National Science Foundation fellowship review panel, 1985. Member carcinogen identification committee California Environmental Protection Agency, 1995—1998.

Member toxicology advisory committee Burroughs-Welcome Fund, 1995—2001, chairman, 1997—2000. Member science advisory board Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, 1995—1999. Chairman Gordon Conference on Mutagenesis, 1996, Gordon Conference on Mammalian DNA Repair, 1999.

Member board on radiation effects researcher National Academy of Sciences Commission on Life Sciences, 1996—1998, since 2005. Member international advisory board Chulabhorn Research Institute, Bangkok. Trustee Oberlin College, 1998—2007.

Lecturer Curie Institute, Paris, 2003. Keynote lecturer for conference on DNA repair & mutagenesis American Society Microbiology, 2004. President, chair organizing committee 9th International Conference on Environmental Mutagens, San Francisco, 2005.

Visiting scholar Graduate School Frontier Bioscis., Osaka University, Japan, 2007. Edition board member Genes & Environmental DNA Repair Mechanism Ageing & Development. Senior editor Cancer Research, since 2003.

Edition board member Proceedings National Academy of Sciences.

Achievements

• Philip Courtland Hanawalt has been listed as a noteworthy biology professor, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • MOLECULAR PHOTOBIOLOGY INACTIVATION AND RECOVERY

    (NY 1969 first edition Academic. Hardcover. Octavo, 230p.,...)

  • Molecules to Living Cells

Membership

Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Academy Microbiology. Member: National Academy of Sciences, European Molecular Biology Organization (foreign associate), Radiation Research Society, Environmental Mutagen Society (president 1993-1994, Student Mentoring award 2001), American Society Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, German DNA Repair Network (honorary), Biophysics Society (executive board 1969-1971), Genetics Society, American Society for Photobiology, American Association Cancer Research (board directors 1994-1997).

Connections

Married Joanna Thomas, November 2, 1957 (divorced October 1977). Children: David, Steven. Married Graciela Spivak, September 10, 1978.

Children: Alex, Lisa.

Father:

Joseph Donald Hanawalt

Mother:

Lenore (Smith) Hanawalt

Spouse:

Graciela Spivak

Spouse:

Joanna Thomas

child:

David Hanawalt

child:

Alex Hanawalt

child:

Lisa Hanawalt

child:

Steven Hanawalt