Background
Mommaerts, Wilfried Francis Henry Maria was born on March 4, 1917 in Broechem, Belgium. Son of Hendrik David and Maria (van Damme) Mommaerts. came to the United States, 1948, naturalized, 1956.
Mommaerts, Wilfried Francis Henry Maria was born on March 4, 1917 in Broechem, Belgium. Son of Hendrik David and Maria (van Damme) Mommaerts. came to the United States, 1948, naturalized, 1956.
Student, University Leiden, Netherlands, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, Kolozsvar, Hungary, 1943. Doctor honoris causa, University Dijon, 1976.
Faculty, American U., Beirut, 1945-1948;
faculty, Duke U., 1948-1953;
faculty, Western Reserve U., 1953-1956;
coordinator, Commonwealth Fund Medical Curriculum Experiment, 1955-1956;
special Rockefeller fellow, U. College, London, 1956;
professor medicine, physiology, director, Los Angeles County Heart Association Cardiovascular Research Laboratory University of California, 1956-1987;
emeritus professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1987-1988;
department chairman physiology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1966-1987. Member Roger Wagner Los Angeles Master Chorale. Commonwealth Fund fellow Centre des Recherches sur les Macromolecules, Strasbourg, 1963-1964.
Chairman physiology training committee National Institutes of Health, 1967-1971. Visiting professor U. Dijon, 1973-1974. Member International Commision on Genetic Experimentation, since 1980.
Researcher Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Federal Republican Germany. Chairman planning committee European Union Socs. Experimental Biology, 1987-1990.
Member American Physiological Society, American Society Biological Chemists, Biophysics Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Royal Belgian Academy Medicine, Hungarian Physiological Society (honorary), others.
Married Elizabeth Barbara Batyka, July 29, 1944 (deceased). Children— Robert Wilfried Anthony, Edina Maria, Quentin Francis.