Sidney Roberts

Background

Roberts, Sidney was born on March 11, 1918 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel Richard and Elizabeth (Gilbert) Roberts.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1939; postgraduate, Harvard University, 1939-1941; Master of Science, University of Minnesota, 1942; Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1943.

Career

Instructor physiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, 1943-1944; Instructor physiology, George Washington University Medical School, 1944-1945; research associate, Worcester Foundation Experimental Biology, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, 1945-1947; assistant professor physiological chemistry, Yale University Medical School, 1947-1948; member of faculty, University of California Medical School, Los Angeles, since 1948; professor biological chemistry, University of California Medical School, since 1957; chairman academic senate, University of California at Los Angeles, 1989-1990; member of advisory panel regulatory biology, National Science Foundation, 1955-1957; advisory panel metabolic biology, National Science Foundation, 1957-1959; member metabolism study section, National Institutes of Health, 1960-1963; basic science study section, Los Angeles County Heart Association, 1958-1963. Consultant Veterans Administration Hospital., Long Beach, California, 1951-1955, Los Angeles, 1958-1962. Air conservation technical advising committee Los Angeles County Lung Association, 1972-1976.

Achievements

• Sidney Roberts has been listed as a noteworthy biological chemist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served to Second lieutenant Army of the United States, 1944-1948. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Physiological Society, Endocrine Society (vice president 1968-1969, Ciba award 1953), British Bio-chemical Society, Society Neurosci., American Chemical Society (executive committee division biological chemistry 1956-1959), American Society Biological Chemists, American Society Neurochemistry, International Society Neurochemistry, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi (president University of California at Los Angeles chapter 1959-1960).

Connections

Married Clara Marian Szego, September 14, 1943.

Father:

Samuel Richard Roberts

Mother:

Elizabeth (Gilbert) Roberts

Spouse:

Clara Marian Szego