Background
Livingston, Robert Burr was born on October 9, 1918 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William Kenneth and Ruth Forbes (Brown) Livingston.
Livingston, Robert Burr was born on October 9, 1918 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William Kenneth and Ruth Forbes (Brown) Livingston.
He completed his undergraduate studies (in 1940), medical degree (in 1944), and residency at Stanford University.
Intern, assistant resident internal medicine, Stanford Hospital, San Francisco, 1943-1944;
instructor physiology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1946-1948;
assistant professor, Yale University, New Haven, 1950-1952;
research assistant psychiatry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1947-1948;
National Research Council senior fellow neurology, Institute Physiology, Geneva, Switzerland, 1948-1949;
Wilhelm Gruber fellow neurophysiology, Switzerland, France, England, 1949-1950;
executive assistant, president, chairman, National Academy Science and National Research Council, 1950-1952;
associate professor physiology and anatomy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1952-1956;
professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1956-1957;
director basic research, National Institute of Mental Health and National Institute Neurological Diseases and Blindness, 1956-1961;
chief neurobiology laboratory, National Institute of Mental Health, 1960-1965;
professor department Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, 1965-1989;
department chairman Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, 1965-1970;
professor department Neuroscience emeritus, University of California, San Diego, since 1989. Gäst professor of University Zürich, Switzerland, 1971-1972. Ernest Sachs lectr.Dartmouth Medical School, 1981.
Consultant National Research Council, VA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, National Science Foundation, Department Defense. Associate Neuroscience research program Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963-1976, honorary associate, since 1976. Emissary to 6 Arab nations for International Physicians for the Preventionof Nuclear War, September, 1986.
Delegate International Conflict Resolution in Center American, Rust, Austria, International Conference The Center American Challenge, CostaRica, 1988. Neuroscience tutor to Dalai Lama, Dharamsala, India, 1987,90, Newport Beach, California, 1989. Science advisory Dalai Lama, since 1990.
Board of directors Foundations' Fund for Research in Psychiatry, 1954-1957. Board incorporators Journal History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Incorporator Institute Policy Studies, 1963, Elmwood Institute, 1984.
Lieutenant (junior grade) Medical Corps United States Naval Reserve,1944-1946. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (chairman commission science education 1968-1971), American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Physiological Society, American Association Anatomists, American Neurological Association, American Academy Neurology, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, American Association Neurological Surgeons, Society for Neurosci., Stanford Alumni Association (board directors 1990-1993).
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Married Mandana Beckner, December 21, 1954 (divorced 1977). Children: Louise, Dana, Justyn.