Background
Scott, Walter Neil was born on March 2, 1935 in Evansville, Indiana, United States. Son of Paul Kruger and Pauline Virginia (Kimbley) Scott.
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Walter Neil Scott
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Bachelor of Science, Western Kentucky State College, 1956; Doctor of Medicine, University Louisville, 1960.
Career
Intern, New England Center Hospital, Boston, 1960-1961;
resident, New England Center Hospital, 1961-1962;
National Institutes of Health fellow medicine, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Boston, 1962-1963;
United States Public Health Service fellow biophysics laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1963-1965;
special National Institutes of Health fellow biochemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1965-1966;
biochemist, School Aerospace Medicine, San Antonio, 1966-1968;
acting chief biochemistry pharmacology division, School Aerospace Medicine, 1967-1968;
assistant professor, Mount Sinai Graduate School, New York City, 1968-1971;
member graduate faculty, CUNY, New York City, 1968-1982;
assistant professor ophthalmology, Mount Sinai Medical School, New York City, 1971-1974;
associate professor ophthalmology, Mount Sinai Medical School, 1974-1979;
research professor ophthalmology, Mount Sinai Medical School, 1979-1982;
assistant dean research, Mount Sinai Medical School, 1976-1981;
associate dean, Mount Sinai Medical School, 1981-1982;
department chairman biology, New York University, New York City, 1982-1987;
professor, New York University, New York City, since 1982. Lancaster visiting professor Western Kentucky U., 1980. Member cornea task force National Eye Institute, 1972, vision research program committee, 1975-1979.
Consultant metabolic biology program National Science Foundation, 1976-1991. Established investigator American HeartAssn., 1971-1976. Molly Berns senior investigator New York Heart Association, 1976-1980.
Chairman Gordon Conference Biology and Chemistry of Peptides, 1978. Member organizing committee 3d Gordon Conference on Peptides, 6th American Peptide Symposium.
Achievements
Membership
Trustee Institute Applied Biology, since 1986. Served to captain United States Air Force, 1966-1968. Fellow New York Academy Sciences (governor 1978-1982, president 1983, chairman conference organizing committee 1980-1981, 87-88).
Member American Physiological Society, American Society Biological Chemists, Biophysics Society, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine (editorial bd.procs.), American Heart Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, American Society Nephrology, New York Academy of Medicine (committee public health since 1986), Endocrine Society, Society Cell Biology, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
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Connections
Children: Walter David Kimbley, Benjamin Bray.
