Advisory Services and Honors | Department of German Studies

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Regarding the advisory services Hans performed and the honors he received, James Travis wrote in his laudation:

Advisory Services

“Hans was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1961 and has served the Academy and the National Research Council in various capacities. They include elected chairman of the Biochemistry Section and of Class II (Biological Sciences) of the Academy, service on the Committee on Research on Life Sciences, member of the National Board on Graduate Education, member of the Committee on Research on Life Sciences, U.S. National Committee on Biochemistry, etc.

Hans was a member of various organizing committees of international symposia and congresses in the USA and abroad. He served the National Institutes of Health as member of Study Sections, chairman of Conferences on Training in Biochemistry and member of the Council of the National Institute for General Medical Sciences. He was a member of the National Science Planning Board of the 1962 Century 21 Exposition in Seattle and of the US-Japan Cooperative Science Program.

Within the private sector, he was a consultant, and for 10 years a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Consultant to the Life Sciences Program of the Battelle Memorial Institute, member of the Board of Trustees of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Science Advisor and member of the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Mason Research Center in Seattle.

Honors

“Hans is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of many other professional Societies. He is Honorary Member of the Biochemical Society of Japan, and Foreign Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Sciences in Germany. He received honorary Ph.D. degrees from the University of Geneva, the University of Tokushima (Japan) and the Medical College of Ohio. On the occasion of its 700th anniversary, the University of Montpellier (France) conferred upon him and 12 other foreign scientists an honorary Ph.D. degree and in 1990, he received from Kyoto University (Japan) the honorary degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences, the first American and the second recipient honored in this manner. He also received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of Duke University Medical Center and was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). He is the recipient of the 1989 Stein and Moore Award of The Protein Society, and in 1994 was elected Senior Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1998 The Protein Society established in his honor the Hans Neurath Award.”

Dr. Neurath receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences from Kyoto University in 1990.