Background
Brooks, Summer Cushing was born on August 17, 1888 in Sapporo, Japan. Son of William Penn and Eva Bancroft (Hall) Brooks.
Brooks, Summer Cushing was born on August 17, 1888 in Sapporo, Japan. Son of William Penn and Eva Bancroft (Hall) Brooks.
Came to the United States, 1888, citizen by birth. Bachelor of Science, University of Massachusetts, 1910. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1916.
Assistant in botany, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1910-1911. Biology-chemist, Research Institute National Dental Association, Cleveland, 1916-1917. Hanna research fellow, pathology, Western Reserve University, 1917.
Research fellow tropical medicine, Harvard, 1917-1919.
Associate professor physiology and biochemistry, Bryn Mawr College, 1919-1920. Biologist, hygienic laboratory, United States Public Health Service, Washington, 1920-1926.
Professor of physiology Rutgers University, 1926-1927. Professor of zoology University of California at Berkeley, since 1927.
Trustee Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Botanical Society, American Physiological Society, American Chemical Society, Society Experimental Biological Medicine, Western Society Naturalists (president 1933), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Sigma Kappa. Club: Cooper Ornithological (president Northern Section, 1946-1948).
Married Matilda Neuffer Moldenhauer, July 14, 1917.