Education

1954    A.B. Swarthmore College
1958    Ph.D. Cornell University
 

Experience

            1958-1960       Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories

            1960-1961       Research Physicist, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

            1961-1964       Assistant/Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley 

            1964-1980       Professor of Physics, Princeton University

            1969                Visiting Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge UK

            1973-1989       Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories

            1976                Visiting Professor, Bohr Institute, Copenhagen

            1980-1996       Professor of Chemistry and Biology, California Institute of Technology

            1993-1995       Chair of the Faculty, California Institute of Technology

            1986-1991       Chair, Computation and Neural Systems Program, Caltech

            1997-2008       Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University

            2010-2013       Visiting associate, Institute for Advanced Study

Honors include

Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1962-64)
Guggenheim Fellow (1969)
Buckley Prize, Am. Phys. Soc. (1969)
John and Catherine T. MacArthur Award (1983-88)
Am. Phys. Soc. Prize in Biophysics (1985)
Michelson-Morley Award,  Case-Western University (1988)
The Wright Prize, Harvey Mudd College (1989)
California Scientist of the Year, California Museum of Science & Industry (1991)
Neural Network Pioneer Award, IEEE (1997)
International Neural Network Society Helmholtz Award (1999)
Dirac Medal and Prize, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste  (2001)
Pender Award, Moore School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania (2002)
Albert Einstein Award, World Cultural Council (2005)
IEEE Rosenblatt Award (2009)
Swartz Prize, Soc. for Neurosci (2012)
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, Franklin Institute (2019)

Hon. D.Sci  Swarthmore College  (1992)
Hon. D.Sci  University of Chicago (2009)
Honorary Alumnus, Caltech (2017)

Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Princeton (1979-80)
Roscoe G. Dickinson Professor of Chemistry and Biology, Caltech (1980-1996)
Howard A. Prior Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton (2002-2008 )

Member, National Academy of Sciences (1973- )
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1976- )
Member, American Philosophical Society (1988- )

Miscellaneous outside activities include

"Tycho" Lunar Surface Study Group  (1965-1966)
Strategic Military Panel, President's Science Advisory Committee (1971-73)
Solar Photovoltaic Panel, American Physical Society (1977-1979)
NAS committee on Education for the Research Biologist of 20010  (2002 -03)
Trustee, Battelle Memorial Institute (1982-2006 )
Vice President, American Physical Society (2005)
President, American Physical Society (2006)