Arthur Charles Giese
Biologist, scholar
Born Dec. 19, 1904, Chicago (IL), U.S.; son of Theodore and Bronislawa (Bombinski); married Raina (Georgieva Ivanova); child: Arthur T.
Education: Bachelor of Science (B.S.), University of Chicago, 1927; Ph.D., Stanford University (CA), 1933
Career, i.a.: instructor, 1934, prof., 1947-70, Stanford University; prof. Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove (CA), 1945-73; committee member, NATO conference on photobiology, Alghero, Sardinia (Italy), 1960.
Author: Cell Physiology, 1957; Living with our Sun's Ultraviolet Rays, 1973; Blepharismu, the Biology of a Light Sensitive Protozoan, 1976; editor, Annual Review of Physiology, 1945-70; numerous lectures at various universities in U.S. and abroad.
Member: fellow, California Academy of Sciences; Society of General Physiology; American Society of Zoology; exchange professors between Polish and American Academies of Sciences. (Poland), 1980
Honors, i.a.: fellowships, Rockefeller Foundation, 1939-40, Guggenheim Foundation, 1947, 1960; Certificate of Merit, Office of Naval Research, 1945, and American Society of Zoology, 1975
Affiliation: Democrat
Languages: English, Polish, German, French
Hobbies: Eastern European history, music, hiking
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996