About Howard Bishop Lewis
Lived 1887 – 1954 (aged 66–67). Howard Bishop Lewis was a biochemist.
Howard Bishop Lewis (8 November 1887 – 7 March 1954) was a chemistry professor and past president of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (AMBSB).
Lewis was born on a farm near Southington, Connecticut. After earning a B.A. in 1908 from Yale University, he taught at Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia and the Centenary Collegiate Institute in Hackettstown, New Jersey. He returned to Yale in 1910 and finished his Ph.D. in 1913.
Lewis was elected in 1918 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 1949 a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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