Background
Gerard, Ralph Waldo was born on October 7, 1900 in Harvey, Illinois, United States. Son of Maurice and Eva (Teitelbaum) Gerard.
Gerard, Ralph Waldo was born on October 7, 1900 in Harvey, Illinois, United States. Son of Maurice and Eva (Teitelbaum) Gerard.
Bachelor of Science, University of Chicago, 1919, Doctor of Philosophy, 1921. Doctor of Medicine Rush Medical College, 1924. Doctor of Science, University Maryland., 1952.
Doctor of Laws, University Saint Andrews (Scotland), 1964.
Doctor of Letters, Brown University, 1964. Doctor of Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Leiden, 1962.
January, 1954); 1 son, James. Married second, Leona Bachrach Chalkley, January 1955. Professor, department chairman physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology South Dakot University, 1921-1922.
National research fellow, Europe, 1925-1927.
Assistant professor physiology University of Chicago, 1927-1929, associate professor 1929-1941, professor, 1941-1952, professor behavioral science, 1954-1955. Professor neurophysiology and physiology, director laboratories
Neuropsychiat Institute, college medical University of Illinois, 1952-1955. Professor neurophysiology and psychiatry Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan, 1955-1964, consultant senior scientist, 1964-1974.
Director special studies, professor biological science, dean graduate division University of California at Irvine, 1964-1974, special adviser academic affairs, until 1970.
Praelector U. Saint Andrews, 1958. Lowell lecturer, 1958, Robert Johnson, Junior memorial lecturer, 1958, Lakeside lecturer, 1960, Stanley R. Dean lecturer, 1964. Adviser Rockefeller Foundation, 1935, Unitarian Service-United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Medical Mission, Czechoslovakia, 1946, Greece, 1948.
Consultant in field
Director special war research. Chairman physiological advisory panel, Office Naval Research, 1947-1953. Chairman Virginia commission on problems aging, 1955-1960.
Member Executive Committee, division biology and agriculture National Research Council, after 1960.
Member Executive Committee, division biology and agriculture National Research Council, after 1960. Fellow Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences, 1954-1955. Fellow Royal Society Edinburgh (honorary).
Member National Academy Sciences (editor Proceedings), American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Psychiatric Association (honorary), Physiological Society (president 1951-1952), Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, Chicago Institute Medicine, British Physiological Society, Biology-chemical Society, American Neurological Association, American Naturalists, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pan Hellenic Medical Association (honorary), A.A.U.P. (president chapter 1948), Society Experimental Biological and Medicine, Society General Physiological, National Society Medical.
Clubs: Cosmos, Quadrangle, Chicago Literary.
Married Margaret Wilson, June 15, 1922 (deceased. Married second, Leona Bachrach Chalkley, January 1955.