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Richard Freligh Baker, American biophysicist, educator. Recipient Distinguished Professor Emeritus award University Southern California, 1987. Member Electron Microscopy Society of America (charter, award for contributions to electron microscopy California branch 1985), Los Angeles Academy Medicine, Sigma Xi, Sigma Pi Sigma.

Background

Baker, Richard Freligh was born on February 14, 1910 in Westfield, Pennsylvania, United States.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Pennsylvania State University, 1932. Master of Science in Physics, Pennsylvania State University, 1933. Doctor of Philosophy, University Rochester, 1937.

Career

Postdoctoral fellow University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1937-1938. Research associate Columbia University, New York City, 1938-1939, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1939-1941. Physicist Radio Corporation of America, Princeton, New Jersey, 1941-1947.

Assistant professor experimental medicine University Southern California Medical School, Los Angeles, 1947-1949, associate professor, 1949-1958, professor microbiology, 1958-1999. Senior associate California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1952-1958, senior research associate, 1965-1979.

Achievements

  • Richard Freligh Baker has been listed as a noteworthy biophysicist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Electron Microscopy Society of America (charter, award for contributions to electron microscopy California branch 1985), Los Angeles Academy Medicine, Sigma Xi, Sigma Pi Sigma.

Connections

Son of Klein Dante and Elsie Mabel (Freligh) B. M. Sheila G. Calvert, May 21, 1939 (deceased March 1983). 1 daughter, Amelia M.

M. Yunita L. McCleese, July 7, 1984.