Background
Parks, Robert Emmett was born on July 29, 1921 in Glendale, New York, United States. Son of Robert Emmett and Carolyn M. (Heinemann) Parks.
Parks, Robert Emmett was born on July 29, 1921 in Glendale, New York, United States. Son of Robert Emmett and Carolyn M. (Heinemann) Parks.
AB, Brown U., 1944; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1945; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1954.
Intern, Boston's Children's Hospital, 1945-1946; research associate, Amherst (Massachusetts) College, 1948-1951; postdoctoral fellow, Enzyme Institute, Madison, Wisconsin, 1951-1954; member of faculty, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1954-1963; professor pharmacology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, 1961-1963; professor medical science, Brown U., Providence, 1963-1991; professor emeritus, Brown U., Providence, since 1991; director graduate program in pharmacology and experimental pathology, Brown U., Providence, 1978-1981; chairman of the section biochemistry pharmacology, Brown U., Providence, 1963-1978, 83-91. Consultant in field.
With Army of the United States, 1943-1945, 46-48. Member American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, American Society Biological Chemists, American Association Cancer Research (board directors 1982-1986), Sigma Xi.
Married Margaret Ellen Ward, June 15, 1945. Children: Robert Emmett III, Walter Ward, Christopher Carr.