J. Michael Bishop AKA John Michael Bishop, Jr. Born: 22-Feb-1936 Birthplace: York, PA
Gender: Male Religion: Agnostic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Scientist, Doctor Nationality: United States Executive summary: Genetic causes of cancer For advancements in understanding of origins of cancer, J. Michael Bishop and his collaborator Harold E. Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1989. He was educated in a two-room rural schoolhouse in Pennsylvania where science was almost never mentioned, and did not decide until medical school that he wanted to be a researcher. Years before his Nobel-winning work, Bishop had been narrowly beaten by Howard M. Temin and David Baltimore in the race to unravel reverse transcriptase. In his autobiography and history of science, How to Win a Nobel Prize, he argued that scientists need to communicate better with the general public. His father was a Lutheran minister, but Bishop described himself as an apostate. Father: John Michael Bishop, Sr. (minister) Mother: Carrie Grey Bishop Brother: Stephen Bishop (physicist) Sister: Catharine Bishop (teacher) Wife: Kathryn Ione Putman Bishop Son: Dylan Michael Dwight Bishop (physicist) Son: Eliot John Putman Bishop (architect)
High School: Swatara Township High School, Oberlin, PA (1953) University: BS Chemistry, Gettysburg College (1957) Medical School: MD, Harvard Medical School (1962) Scholar: Virology, National Institutes of Health (1964-67) Scholar: Neurobiology, University of Hamburg (1967-68) Teacher: Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at San Francisco (1968-72) Professor: Microbiology and Immunology, University of California at San Francisco (1972-94) Professor: Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco (1982-) Administrator: Chancellor, University of California at San Francisco (1998-)
Exploratorium American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Society for Cell Biology American Society for Microbiology American Society for Virology Federation of American Scientists Board of Sponsors Massachusetts General Hospital 1962-64 National Academy of Sciences Salk Institute for Biological Studies Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society Phi Beta Kappa Society Lasker Award 1982 Dickson Prize 1985 Nobel Prize for Medicine 1989 (with Harold E. Varmus) Priestley Medal 1999 National Medal of Science 2003
Author of books:
How to Win a Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science (2003)
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