Transcript Harold Amos
Aminata k.sesay Period 3 2/28/13 HAROLD AMOS LIFE HISTORY Harold Amos was born on September 7,1918 - 2nd of 9 children of Howard R. Amos sr. and Iola Johnson. -Joyce Hester, Florine Williams, and Margaret Johnson. His family lived in New Jersey. went to a segregated school in Pennsauken - In 1936, he graduated from Camden High School in New Jersey. Attended Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. - with a full scholarship. In 1941, he graduated from Summa Cum Laude. - Major in Biology and a minor in chemistry Soon became employed as an assistant in the Biology Department at Springfield College. In 1942, he served as a warrant officer in a battalion that supplied gasoline to regular troops. When he was in Paris, he became interested in music. - He held season tickets to the Boston Symphony Orchestra also to the opera and ballet performances - He loved bringing his friends with him. SUCCESS ALL THE WAY! When he started to teach, he considered it as one of his greatest joy of all. He was lauded for his devotion to teaching and his compassion as a mentor. He often offer words of praises, -encouragement -advice -and support For over 50 years, he remained an active faculty member at Harvard Medical School. In 1969, he became a full professor. He was the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of: - Microbiology and - Molecular Genetics at the Harvard Medical School. CONTRIBUTIONS Amos devoted much of his time and effort to supporting and encouraging minorities in biomedical science and medicine. In 1983, he supported the establishment of the Hinton-Wright Society He was a founding member of the National Advisory Committee of the MMFDP In 1958, he discovered that a compound once considered only in relation to DNA the carrier of genetic information was also present in RNA, the ribonucleic acid concerned with the transfer of amino acids. He was a very determined man and when he was in Paris, he said that “he wanted to be a scientist and, if he had to scrub floors with a toothbrush, he would be one.” He spoke fluent French, read French poetry, and enjoyed his time there with the foods and wines AWARDS In 1995, Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1999, he was awarded the first annual Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award. Amos was one of the first two recipients of the Dr. Charles R. Drew World Medical Prize, awarded by Howard University to distinguished minority biomedical scientists. 1991 was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also received the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal in 2000. Harold Amos was 84 years old when he suffered from stroke. - a day or two later, he was dead. Died on February 26,2003. He also inspired hundreds of minorities to become medical doctors. - he will forever be remembered. SOURCES http://www.fa.hms.harvard.edu/about-ourfaculty/memorial-minutes/a/harold-amos/ http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.amos/7 16/mb.ashx http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/0 3.06/14-amos.html http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view /harold-amos-harvard-science-legend