Background
Russell, Richard Lawson was born on November 24, 1940 in Bar Harbor, Maine, United States. Son of William Lawson and Elizabeth Buckley (Shull) Russell.
Russell, Richard Lawson was born on November 24, 1940 in Bar Harbor, Maine, United States. Son of William Lawson and Elizabeth Buckley (Shull) Russell.
Bachelor, Harvard College, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, 1967.
Assistant professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1966-1967; postdoctoral fellow, Medical Research Council Laboratory Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England, 1967-1970; assistant professor, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, California, 1970-1976; associate professor, U. Pittsburgh, 1976-1984; professor biology, U. Pittsburgh, since 1984; assistant department chairman biology, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, since 1990. Member study section National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1980-1984.
Commissioners recreation league Dynamo Soccer, Pittsburgh, 1988-1992.
Married Stephanie Carhart Merton, June 16, 1962 (divorced November 1976). 1 child, Kerstin; married Barbara Joan Furman Attardi, December 18, 1977. Children: Daniel, David.