Ewald Rudolf Weibel - Brief Curriculum Vitae#

Academic degrees

• Dr.med., University of Zürich
• D.Sc.(hon), University of Edinburgh
• Dr.med.h.c., University of Geneva

Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, University of Berne, Switzerland

• 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

• 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.

• 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)

• Journal of Microscopy (1971-78), News in Physiological Sciences (1986-2001),
• American Journal of Physiology: Lung Cellular and Molecular (1989-1994)

• Respiration Physiology, Journal of Ultrastructure Research,
• Journal de Biologie Cellulaire, American Review of Respiratory Diseases

• 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.