W.I.F. Executive Council Members, Associate Members & Honorary Members
Recipients of Nobel Prizes
Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine) Prof. Dr. Julius Axelrod BS MA PhD, h.c.Dr.mult, MNAS FAAAS Snr. MAIM FMRS FMDAderN(Germany) FAN(USA) MACS(USA) MASPEP(USA) MASBC(USA) Inst.Mem.mult
(Discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in
the nerve terminals
and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation), Guest Worker
at the US National
Institute of Health, USA, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the
National Foundation at the
Brookhaven National Laboratory the Centre for Biomedical Education, Member
of the International Brain
Research Organisation Member of 13 Editorial Boards and 5 Science Advisory
Committees and former Chief
of Section on Pharmacology at the Laboratory of Chemical Sciences the
National Institute of Mental Health
and Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Department of Health,
Education and Welfare, USA.
Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine) Prof. Dr. Konrad E. Bloch MA PhD FAAS MNAS MAPS FMRS Inst. Mem. mult.
(Discoveries concerning the mechanism and
regulation of the cholesterol
and fatty acid metabolism), Higgins Professor of Biochemistry at Harvard
University, USA and former
Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Chicago, USA
Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine) Prof. Dr. Christian de Duve MSc MD Agrege de l'Enseignement Superieur Dr.h.c.mult. MRAM(Belgium) MRAB(Belgium) MACS(USA) MABS(USA) MASBC(USA) MPAS(Pontifical) MASCB(USA) MDAderNL(Germany) MKAvoorGvanB(Belgium) FMAAA(USA) FMRS(UK) FMRSC(Canada)
(Co-discoverer concerning
the structural and
functional organisation of the cell), President of the International
Institute of Cellular and Molecular
Pathology and the Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology(Patron
HM Queen Fabiola), Brussels,
Belgium, Emeritus Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Cytology at the Rockefeller
University and former
Professor of Biochemistry at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.
Nobel Laureate (Chemistry) Prof. Dr. Manfred Eigen, Dr. rer. nat Dr.h.c.mult FRS FANAS
(Co-discoverer of fast chemical reactions caused by very short
pulses of energy), Director at the Karl-Friedrich-Bonhoeffer-Institut,
Max-Plank-Institut Fur Biophysikalische Chemie, Gottingen-ikolausberg,
Germany, former head of separate department of biochemical kinetics at the
Max-Planck Institut, Andrew D. White Professor at Large at Cornell
University USA and Honorary Professor Technische Hochschule Braunschweig,
Germany.
Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine) Professor Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, Kt CBE Dip.Eng GradIEE Dr.h.c.mult. FRS Hon.FEng Hon.FRCP Hon.FRCR
(For the
development of
computer assisted tomography)-(Inventor of EMI-scanner), Consultant to
Thorn-EMI Central Research
Laboratories, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Adviser to the National Heart
Hospital and Brompton Hospital,
Professional Fellow in Imaging Sciences at Manchester University, Consultant
to the National Heart and
Chest Hospitals and former Head of Medical Systems Section and Chief Staff
Scientist at the EMI
Laboratories and Design Leader for EMIDEC (the first large, all transistor
computer to be built in Great
Britain, UK
Nobel Laureate(Chemistry) Prof. Dr. Jerome Karle, BS, AM MS PhD, h.c.Dr.mult, FAPS MNAS Inst.Mem.mult.
(Co-inventor of direct methods to determine crystal
structures), Director and Chief Scientist of the Laboratory of the Structure
of Matter at the US Navy, former Research Associate on the Manhattan
Project, Head of the Electron Diffraction Section and Head of the
Diffraction Branch of the US Naval Research Laboratory, Professor at the
University of Maryland, President of the American Crystallographic
Association, Chairman of the US National Committee for Crystallography of
the National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council, President
International Union of Crystallography and Charter Member of the Senior
Executive Service (US Government) (Vice-President of WIF), Washington, D.C.,
U.S.A.
Nobel Laureate(Physiology or Medicine) .Prof.Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini MB BSurg. h.c.Dr.mult. Inst.Mem.mult.
(Discoveries in chemical growth factors which
control growth and
development in humans and animals), Guest Professor at the Institute of
Neurobiology of the Italian
National Council of Research, Rome, Italy and former Research Director,
Institute of Cell Biology of the
Italian Council of Research and Professor of Neurology at Washington
University, Italy
Nobel Laureate Frederik Willem de Klerk Dr.mult,world Hons. (mult.), SOUTH AFRICA
President of South Africa, Lawyer in Practice, Deputy President with President Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Minister of State (mult.), Leader of the National Party of South Africa, Chairman of the Council of Ministers et al
Nobel Laureate(Chemistry) Prof.Dr.Bruce Merrifield, PhD, h.c.Dr.mult, MACS MASBC MAIC MNAS
(Discoverer of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid
matrix), John D. Rockefeller Jr. Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at the
Rockefeller University, New York, USA, Associate Editor of the International
Journal of Peptide and Protein Research, Member of the Editorial Board of
Analytical Biochemistry and former Nobel Guest Professor, USA.
Nobel Laureate (Economic Sciences) Prof.Dr. Merton Howard Miller AB PhD h..c. Dr.mult.
(For
pioneering work in the theory of financial economics), Robert R. McCormick
Distinguished Service
Professor and Professor of Banking and Finance, Graduate School of Business,
University of Chicago,
U.S.A, Public Director of the Chicago Merchantile Exchange and former
Economist at the US Federal
Reserve Board, Public Director of the Chicago Board of Trade and Chairman of
the Special Academic Panel
of the Chicago Merchantile Exchange into the Crash of 1987,
Nobel Laureate (Chemistry) Prof.Dr. The Lord Porter OM kt BSc MA PhD ScD FRS HonFIC Hon.FRSE Hon.FRSC Dr.h.c.mult MAEur FANAS FAAAAS FAAPS FAPontifical Acad. Memb.Inst.mult.
(Co-discoverer of fast chemical reactions caused by very short pulses of
energy), Chairman of the Centre
for Photomolecular Sciences at Imperial College of Science, Technology and
Medicine, Chancellor of the
University of Leicester, Emeritus Professor of the Royal Institution, former
President of the Royal Society
(Patron HM The Queen), Director of the Royal Institution, President of the
Chemical Society, President
Comite Internat.de photobiologie, President of the National Association for
Gifted Children, President of the
R&D Society, President of the Association for Science Education and
President of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science(BAAS). Founder 'Associate' INEED, UK
Nobel Laureate(Physiology or Medicine) Dr.Richard John Roberts BSc PhD Dr.h.c.mult. Inst.Mem.mult.
(Co-discoverer of split genes), Director of Research, New
England Biolabs, Beverly,
MA, USA, Executive Editor of Nucleic Acids Research, Member of the Editorial
Board of Computer
Applications in the Biosciences, Panel Member of the NLM Study Section on
Complimentary Biology and
former Senior Staff Investigator and Assistant Director of Research at the
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
and Miller Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Nobel Laureate(Peace) Prof.Dr. Oscar Arias Sanchez PhD Dr. h.c.mult.
Founder and President of
the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress, San Jose, Costa Rica,
Member of the Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute, Member Carter Institute, Member of
the Institute of International
Studies at Stanford University, Member of the ILD Rockefeller Foundation,
Member of the International
Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, Member of the
International Press Service and
Board of Directors of the World Wide Fund for Nature and former President of
Costa Rica, Professor in the
School of Political Sciences at the University of Costa Rica, Minister of
National Planning and Economics
Policy, Congressman, General-Secretary of the Liberacion National Party of
Costa Rica, Costa Rica. Central
America
Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine) Prof.Dr. Andrew Victor Schally, BSc PhD., h.c.Dr.mult., MES MAAAS MSBC MAPS MSEBM
(Co-discoverer of the effect
of peptide hormone production of the brain) , Chief of Endocrine Polypeptide
and Cancer Institute, Senior Medical Investigator of the Veterans
Administration Medical Centre (US Government) and Professor of Medicine and
Head of Section of Experimental Medicine at the Tulane University Medical
Centre, USA.
Nobel Laureate(Chemistry) Prof.Dr. Henry Taube, BS MS PhD Dr.h.c.multi. MNAS MRPS(Lund) MAPS FMRS(UK) Hon.MCSC(Canada) Hon.MHA(Hungary) Hon.FICS(India) Hon.FRSC(UK) FAEA(Japan)
(Mechanisms of electron transfer reactions), Professor of
Chemistry, Stanford University,
USA and former Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago and
Chairman of Stanford University,
USA.
Nobel Laureate (Chemistry) Sir John E. Walker Kt FRS, BA MA, DPhil, Dr.h.c.mult.
(Co-discoverer by elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism
underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate), Director, MRC
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Dunn Human Nutrition Unit., Cambridge, UK
and former Research Fellow at the University of Winconsins, Research Fellow
at the Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique, Research Fellow at the
Pasteur Institute of the European Molecular Biology Organisation and Staff
Scientist at the Medical Research Council Dunn Nutrition Laboratory, UK.
Nobel Laureate(Physiology or Medicine) Prof. Dr. James Dewey Watson, BS., PhD Dr.h.c.mult. MNAS MAAAS MRDA(Denmark) MAPhilS FMRS(UK) MASc(Russia) Inst.Mem.mult.
(Co-discoverer of the structure of DNA), President, Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory, former Senior Research Fellow in Biology at the
California Institute of Technology, Director of the National Centre for
Human Genome Research at the National Institute of Health(NIH) and Professor
of Molecular Biology at the Harvard University USA.
Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine) Prof.Dr. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow AB MS PhD h.c.Dr.mult(over 60 in number)
(Discoverer of the development of
radioimmunoassays of petide
hormones), Senior Medical Investigator, Emeritus, US Government's Department
of Veterans Affairs, New
York, U.S.A and Member of the Advisory Board of the Encyclopaedia
Universalis, Director of the Solomon
A. Berson Research Laboratory, Chief of the Veterans Administration at the
Radioimmunoassay Reference
Laboratory, Professor Emeritus of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
Yeshiva University(New
York,USA), Solomon A. Berson Distinguished Professor-at-Large, Mt.Sinnai
School of Medicine at the
University of New York and former Chief of Nuclear Medicine Service at the
Veterans Administration
Hospital, IAEA Expert at the Instituto Energia Atomica(Brazil), WHO
Consultant at the Radiation Medical
Centre, Secretary of the US National Committee on Medical Physics, Member of
the US President's Study
Group on Careers for Women, Member of the Advisory Board of the US National
Pituitary Agency, Member
of the Endocrinol Study Secretariate of the US National Institute of Health
and President of the Council at
the Endocrine Society of America, USA
Nobel Laureate Professor Ahmed H. Zewail OM(Egypt) BS MS PhD FNAS FAAAS FAPhilS FAPS Dr.mult, world Hons.(mult.), EGYPT
Linus Pauling Chai Professor of Chemistry & Professor of Physics, Director of the NSF Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Professor (mult.), Current Year outright award winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Editor-in-Chief, Technical Author (mult.) et al