Richard Leon Sidman

Background

Sidman, Richard Leon was born on September 19, 1928 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Manuel and Annabelle (Seltzer) Sidman.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1949; M.D. (Jeffries Wyman scholar), Harvard University, 1953.

Career

Intern in medicine, Boston City Hospital, 1953-1954; assistant resident in neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1955-1956; staff scientist, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1956-1958; instructor to professor neuropathology, Harvard University Medical School, since 1959; Bullard professor, Harvard University Medical School, since 1969; chief division neurogenetics, New England Regional Primate Research Center Harvard Medical School, since 1991. Chief department neuroscience Children's Hospital, Boston, 1972-1988. 1st Richard Stearns Memorial lecturer Albert Einstein College Medicine, 1958.

Bailey Memorial lecturer U. Saskatchewan, Canada, 1978. Waisman Memorial lecturer University of Wisconsin.

Achievements

• Richard Leon Sidman has been listed as a notable Neuroscientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Introduction to Neuropathology

Membership

Member science advising committee Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation. Board science overseers Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine. Served with United States Public Health Service, 1956-1958.

Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, National Academy Science. Member American Academy Neurology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association Anatomists, American Association Neuropathologists, American Society Cell Biology, Histochem. Society, International Brain Research Organisation, Society Development Biology, International Society Development Neurobiology, Society Development Neurosci., Society Neurosci., Tissue Culture Association.

Connections

Married Ljiljana Lekic, 1974.

Father:

Manuel Sidman

Mother:

Annabelle (Seltzer) Sidman

Spouse:

Ljiljana Lekic