Herbert Shapiro

Herbert Shapiro

Fellow: Awarded 1937
Field of Study: Molecular and Cellular Biology

Competition: US & Canada

Princeton University

As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1937–38:

SHAPIRO, HERBERT:  Appointed for investigations of nerve activity at low oxygen pressures, in European laboratories; tenure, twelve months from October 1, 1937.

Born November 21, 1907, at Brooklyn, New York.  Education:  Columbia University, B.S., 1929, A.M., 1930; Princeton University, Ph.D., 1934 (Francis Hinton Maule Fellow, 1932–33). Investigator, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Summers, 1930–36. National Research Council Fellow, University of Chicago, 1934–35.

Assistant in Zoology, 1929–31, Columbia University; Assistant Instructor in Physiology, 1931–32, Research Assistant, 1933–34, 1935—, Princeton University.

Publications:  Articles in Biological Bulletin, Anatomical Record, Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, American Naturalist, Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Review of Scientific Instruments, American Journal of Physiology.

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