Background
Zwemer, Raymund Lull was born on March 30, 1902 in Bahrain. Son of Samuel Marinus and Amy Elizabeth (Wilkes) Zwemer.
Zwemer, Raymund Lull was born on March 30, 1902 in Bahrain. Son of Samuel Marinus and Amy Elizabeth (Wilkes) Zwemer.
Student English School, Cairo, Egypt, 1916-1918. Bachelor of Arts, Hope College, Michigan, 1923. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale, 1926.
National Research fellow Harvard, 1926-1928. Guggenheim fellow U. Buenos Aires, 1941.
Instructor, Columbia, 1928-1931, assistant professor, 1931-1944. Worked with minister of public health, Uruguay, 1942. Chairman Interdeptl. Committee on Cooperation with American Republics, 1944.
Associate chief Division Cultural Cooperation, unites states department of State, 1944-1947. Executive director Interdeptl. Committee on Science and Cultural Cooperation, 1945-1947.
Executive secretary National Academy Sciences and National Research Council, 1947-1950. Chief, science division Library of Congress, 1950-1955. Chief division international cooperation for science research United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, 1956-1957, director Bureau Personnel and Management, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1958.
Assistant science adviser Department of State, 1958-1961, member United States delegations North Atlantic Treaty Organization Science Committee meetings, Paris, also Central Treaty Organization Science Council meetings, London, Ankara, Tehran, 1958-1961. Associate editor American Physiological Society publications American Journal Physiology and Journal Applied Physiology, 1961-1965. Director Biological Information User Survey, 1961-1962.
Director translations project Federation American Socs. for Experimental Biology, 1962-1966, executive editor Federation Procs., 1966-1967, project director, executive editor Neurosci, Translate, from 1967. Official United States delegate to 2d PanAmerican Congress on Endocrinology, 1941. Various offices United States Book Exchange, Inc., Washington, 1948-1956, Chairman of the Board, 1950-1951.
Associate editor Anatomical Record, 1950-1955. Consultant in physiology Naval Medical Research Institute, 1949-1955. Convenor finance committee International Anatomical Nomenclature Committee, 1965, member main committee, 1975.
Delegate to Committee on Data for Science and Technology, International Union Biological Sciences, 1970. Member of advisory committee Science News, 1971-1981. Trustee Biological Abstracts, 1949-1956, 62-67, vice president, 1953, president, 1954-1955, treasurer, 1963-1964.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Council Biological. Rotarian.; Club: Cosmos (Washington).
Married Dorothy Ingeborg Bornn, September 13, 1929. Children: Raymund Wilkes, Suzanne (Mistress Resident Advisor Visser), Theodore, Jane (Mistress R.L. Koeser).