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19. Howard A. Schneiderman
19. Howard A. Schneiderman
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His contagious enthusiasm elicited! the very best from unclergraduates, graduate students, and postclocs, many of whom have become world leaclers in science.
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~ - . ~ · TO ~ ~ As a young boy he enjoyed the same frivolities In Brooklyn as ~ did in the Bronx, namely playing stick ball, stoop ball, and ringaleevio, and went through the same Hebrew lessons that ended with a bar mitzvah at the age of thirteen.
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~ clid my best to make my chapters brief because T hac! to write each page of the final book in my own hancI." My own memories of Howard as a scientist indicate that these habits he clevelopect at the age of thirteen formed the basis of his research philosophy as an aclult, since he was one of the most meticulous thinkers T have ever known.
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946 and returned to Swarthmore that fall with a deep interest in the classics, but during his junior year he entered an honors program in math and natural sciences with emphasis on orology. He studied embryology with Ruth Jones; comparative pnys~ology with Knut and Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen and Per Scholander; and evolution and systematics at the Philadelphia Academy with Ruth Patrick, George Gaylord Simpson, Theodosius Dobzhansky, and H
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Many times he said that he learned how to conduct science by watching people who knew how to do science. "By listening to the questions they asked each other and by asking a lot of questions myself, ~ learned about the desert and desert animals from people who worked at the experimental station and who were deeply informed about the desert." Howard Schneiderman was always a great observer of both nature and people, and during his time as an underi_ graduate ne came tO Know a great deal about the ecology of the desert, as well as the physiology of mammals inhabiting that niche.
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important to Howarc! Schneiclerman as was his meeting with Audrey MacLeod in 1949; they were married in 1951 at the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School.
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His stuclies in those early years were on insect respiration and insect spiracles, as well as wound healing and some aspects of developmental biology of the giant silkworm, Hyalophora cecropia.
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on the insect juvenile hormone, and we continued to collaborate after ~ left in 1958 to take a faculty position at Northwestern University. During his tenure at Cornell, Howard became imbued with the spirit of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woocis Hole and taught the invertebrate zoology course.
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Indeecl, a later paper with his student Cliff Poodry, on the ultrastructure of the cleveloping leg imaginal discs of Drosophila, became a Citation Classic. His work with John PostIethwait, another of his graduate students, on pattern
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What can ~ put that's different, that's unique? " Interestingly, the grant from the Ford Foundation was ultimately an important parameter leading to the merger of Case Institute and Western Reserve University into Case Western Reserve University.
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with him from Case Western Reserve University; Peter Bryant presently directs the Developmental Biology Center. Others in clude c!
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It is appropriate that this important edifice is situated directly adjacent to the University of California at Irvine, which was so important to Howard for many years. During his time at Irvine as dean of the School of Biological Sciences, Howard recruited a large number of very bright researchers and planned curricula to educate undergraduate majors in the breadth and modern aspects of biology, but he was always interested in the entire university as well as the School of Biological Sciences.
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~ feel that Howard Schneiderman chose a new challenge when he left Case Western Reserve in 1969 at a time when the reputation of the Department of Biology and the Developmental Biology Center was at its zenith. Later he cteciclect to accept the offer from the Monsanto Company in 1979 as senior vicepresiclent for research and clevelopment and chief scientist as another, different sort of challenge.
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an inevitably growing world population. In a speech in 1985 to the National Research Council's Agency for International Development, he concluclecl that "genetic engineering and its han(lmaiclen, biotechnology, have initiated a profound revolution in science with enormous technological and social consequences.
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More clifficult was selling the entire idea to the management of Monsanto, but, in his usual enthusiastic manner and with all the possible ciata one could command, Howard obtained the support of each of the influential inclividuals at Monsanto. In 1982 Monsanto and Washington University signed the initial five-year $23 million agreement, which is exemplary among university/inclustry collaborations and continues to the present.
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There was a willingness to work for a clurable relationship rather than for a quick fix." Even after this historic program was initiatecl, Howard Schneiclerman continucct to clevelop close research coliaborations between Monsanto ant! other universities such as Oxford and Rockefeller universities.
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MUCH OF THE MATERIAL in this memoir was taken from an unpublished autobiography written by Howard Schneiderman during the last two years of his life. He knew that he was dying and, in his own inimitable way, got "his affairs in order." He wrote a 45-page autobiography, cataloged his beloved stamp collection on the computer, and helped to recruit his successor at Monsanto.
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Distinguished Faculty Award, UCI Alumni Founders Memorial Award, Entomological Society of America Distinguished Leadership Award, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods FIole, Massachusetts 1964-66 President, Society for Developmental Biology 1966-72 Trustee, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 1975-81 Member, Assembly of Life Sciences, National Academy of ~ ~clences 1980-86 Member, Expert Committee on Biotechnology, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development 1981-90 Member of Board, International Society of Developmental Biologists 1981-90 Member, Board of Trustees, Missouri Botanical Garden 1984-88 Member, Council of Go~rernment-University-Industry Research Roundtable, National Academy of Sciences 1987-92 Member, National Science Board, by Presidential Appointment and Senate Confirmation 1988-90 Member, Board of Trustees, Carnegie Institution of Washington 1988-90 Member, Board of Directors, Life Sciences Research Foundation
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Prothoracic gland stimulation by juvenile hormone extracts of insects. Nature 184:171-73.
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The mechanism of pattern reconstruction by dissociated imaginal discs of Drosophila melanogaster.
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Isolation of temperature sensitive mutations blocking clone development in Drosophila melanogaster, and the effects of a temperature sensitive cell lethal mutation on pattern formation in imaginal discs. Wilhelm Roux' Arch.
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Regeneration following duplication in imaginal wing disc fragments of Drosophila melanogaster.
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