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!!Ewald Rudolf Weibel - Brief Curriculum Vitae
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__Academic degrees__	

*Dr.med., University of Zürich
*D.Sc.(hon), University of Edinburgh
*Dr.med.h.c., University of Geneva
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__Present position__

Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, University of Berne, Switzerland
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*Born:	March 5, 1929 in Buchs AG, Switzerland
*Citizen of Bern and Weggis, Switzerland
*Married: April 4, 1956 to Anna Verena Trachsler
*Schools:Primary and Secondary Schools in Buchs AG and Aarau, Gymnasium Aargauische Kantonsschule, Aarau, Switzerland, Matura 1949
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__Academic career__
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*1949 - 1955	Medical School in Zürich, Göttingen and Paris, graduated 1955 Zürich
*1955 - 1958:	Assistant in Anatomy, University of Zürich
*1958 - 1959:	Research Fellow, Yale University (Prof. Averill A. Liebow)
*1959 – 1961	Research Associate, Cardiopulmonary Laboratory, Bellevue Hospital, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University (Profs. Andre F. Cournand and Dickinson W. Richards);
*1961 - 1962	Research Associate, Rockefeller University, New York, Dept. of Cell Biology (Prof. George E. Palade)
*1963 - 1966:	Assistant Professor of Anatomy,University of Zürich
*1966 – 1994:	Professor and Chairman, Institute of Anatomy, University of Berne
*1994 –  	Emeritus Professor	
*1984 - 1985:	Rector University of Berne
*1974	Visiting Professor, Yale University
*1979 + 1981:	Agassiz Visiting Professor in Comparative Biology, Harvard University;
*1981 - 2002	Associate in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
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__Additional academic functions__
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*President, International Society for Stereology (1967-71)
*President, Union of Swiss Societies for Experimental Biology (1969-72)
*Council Member, Royal Microscopical Society, London (1969-72)
*Swiss National Research Council: Member (1969-80). 
*Vice President and Chairman of Division of Biology and Medicine (1974-80)
*Executive Committee, International Federation of Societies for Electron Microscopy (1974-78)
*Council Member, European Cell Biology Organisation
*Co-Chairman, Interunion Commission for Comparative Physiology (1985-1993)
*President, Akademische Kommission, Universität Bern (1987-1996)
*Marcel Benoist Prize Foundation, Member of Board (1987-1999), Vicepresident (1994-1999)
*Vice-Chairman and Secretary, Maurice E. Müller Foundation (1987-2000)
*President, Fleischner Society (1988-89)
*International Union of Physiological Sciences: Council Member (1989-93) 
*Second Vice-President (1993-97), President (1997-2001), Chair Ethics Committee (2001 -2005)
*Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, President (1997-2000), Vicepresident (2000-2004)
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__Editor  __
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*Journal of Microscopy (1971-78), News in Physiological Sciences (1986-2001), 
*American Journal of Physiology: Lung Cellular and Molecular (1989-1994)
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__Editorial Boards  __
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*Respiration Physiology, Journal of Ultrastructure Research, 
*Journal de Biologie Cellulaire, American Review of Respiratory Diseases
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__Honours__
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*Marcel-Benoist Prize (Swiss Federal Government ) (1974)
*Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (1979)
*Felix Fleischner Medal (1979)
*Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1981)
*College Medalist, American College of Chest Physicians (1982)
*Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1985)
*Anders Retzius Medal, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (1987)
*Member of Royal Society of Sciences of Uppsala (1987)
*H.R. Schinz Medal,  (1988)
*Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, University of Edinburgh (1988)
*Member of the Polska Akademia Nauk (1988)
*Member Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (1989)
*Medal of Royal Microscopical Society (1989)
*Member Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (1992), 
*Jan Evangelista Purkinje Gold Medal, Prague (1993)
*Member Academia Europaea (1998)
*Honorary Doctor of Medicine, University of Geneva (1999)
*Honorary Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000)
*Honorary Member, Swiss Academy of Sciences (2000)
*Honorary Member, Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (2004)
*Prix “La Recherche”, Paris (2005)
*Educational Award, European Respiratory Society (2007)
*Honorary Member in Professional Societies:  Societé Française de Microscopie Electronique,  International Society for Stereology,  American Physiological Society,  Swiss Society of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine,  Swiss Society for Anatomy, Histology and Embryology.

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