Beloved colleague John Hearst has passed away (1935-2022)
Professor Emeritus
jehearst@berkeley.edu
117 Lewis Hall
(510) 407-4555
Biography
- Born 1935, Vienna, Austria
- B.E. Yale University (1957)
- Ph.D. California Institute of Technology (1961)
- D.Sc. (hon.) Lehigh University (1992)
- Guggenheim Fellow (1968)
- Miller Professor, Berkeley (1970)
- European Molecular Biology Organization Professor, Brussels (1973)
- Senior Staff Scientist, Structural Biology Division, LBNL (1980-1999)
- Director, Chemical Biodynamics Division, LBNL (1986-87, 1988-89)
- President, American Society for Photobiology (1991-92)
- Merck Centennial Distinguished Lecturer (1992)
- Robert A. Welch Foundation Lecturer (1993)
- American Society for Photobiology Research Award (1994)
- Scientific Advisory Board, 12th International Congress on Photobiology (1996)
- Plenary Lecturer, American Society for Photobiology Annual Meeting, St. Louis (1997)
- Berkeley Citation, University of California, Berkeley (1999)
- Faculty Chemist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2000-)
- Mortimer M. Bortin Award for Outstanding Research in Bone Marrow Transplant (2000)
- Plenary Lecturer, American Society for Photobiology Annual Meeting, SF (2000)
- Planning Advisory Board, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sciences Graduate Program, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA (2000)
- National Marrow Donor Program Symposium Lecturer, American Society of Hematology (2000)
- Founding Director and Vice President, New Science Opportunities, Cerus Corporation, Concord, CA (1997-2005)
- Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2001)
- 9th European Society for Photobiology Congress, Session Chair and Speaker (2001)
- National Cancer Institute Symposium -- Inactivated Retroviral Virions: In Vitro and Vaccine Applications, Speaker (2002)
- Faculty Emeritus: John Heast Founding Director and Vice President, New Science Opportunities, Cerus Corporation, Concord, CA (1997-2005)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
- November 2005 Governing Board of Directors
- Leonardo / The International Society for the Arts, Science and Technology, (2007-)