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1983 Education award
roxIcoLoGY
ANDAPPLIED
PHARMACOLOGY
70,
175-176
(1983)
1983 Education
JULIUS
Award
M. COON
The Education Award is jointly presented by the Society of Toxicology and the Forum for the Advancement of Toxicology. It is presented to an individual who is distinguished by his teaching and training of toxicologists, and who has made significant contributions to education in the broad field of toxicology. This year’s recipient of the Education Award, Dr. Julius M. Coon, was born in Liberty, Missouri. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry at Indiana University in 1932, his Ph.D. degree in Pharmacology from the University of Chicago in 1938, and his M.D. degree from the University of Illinois in 1945. From 1943 to 1953, he served as Director of the University of Chicago Toxicology Laboratory. Dr. Coon also spent a year in 1946 working as a Pharmacologist with the Food and Drug Administration. After 15 years at the University of Chicago where he was associated with Dr. Kenneth D. DuBois and Dr. John Doull, he came to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia where he spent the next quarter of a century teaching, investigating the toxic effects of insecticides, and serving on a large number of national and international committees dealing with safety evaluation, food protection, and the toxicity of food additives. Dr. Coon is a charter member of the Society of Toxicology and is a Distinguished Fellow of the Society. He received its Merit Award in 1978. In 1983, he was given the Ambassador Award of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society of Toxicology. 175
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Our recipient has served his state, his nation, and many international organizations in the capacity of consultant, committee member, and general advisor for the past 40 years. Our distinguished colleague has trained in excess of 20 graduate students in toxicologically related areas during his tenure as Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at Jefferson School of Medicine. The Society honors itself by conferring on Dr. Coon the 1983 Education Award.
ANDAPPLIED
PHARMACOLOGY
70,
175-176
(1983)
1983 Education
JULIUS
Award
M. COON
The Education Award is jointly presented by the Society of Toxicology and the Forum for the Advancement of Toxicology. It is presented to an individual who is distinguished by his teaching and training of toxicologists, and who has made significant contributions to education in the broad field of toxicology. This year’s recipient of the Education Award, Dr. Julius M. Coon, was born in Liberty, Missouri. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry at Indiana University in 1932, his Ph.D. degree in Pharmacology from the University of Chicago in 1938, and his M.D. degree from the University of Illinois in 1945. From 1943 to 1953, he served as Director of the University of Chicago Toxicology Laboratory. Dr. Coon also spent a year in 1946 working as a Pharmacologist with the Food and Drug Administration. After 15 years at the University of Chicago where he was associated with Dr. Kenneth D. DuBois and Dr. John Doull, he came to Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia where he spent the next quarter of a century teaching, investigating the toxic effects of insecticides, and serving on a large number of national and international committees dealing with safety evaluation, food protection, and the toxicity of food additives. Dr. Coon is a charter member of the Society of Toxicology and is a Distinguished Fellow of the Society. He received its Merit Award in 1978. In 1983, he was given the Ambassador Award of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society of Toxicology. 175
0041-008X/83
$3.00
Copyright 0 1983 by Academic Press, Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form revrvec
176
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Our recipient has served his state, his nation, and many international organizations in the capacity of consultant, committee member, and general advisor for the past 40 years. Our distinguished colleague has trained in excess of 20 graduate students in toxicologically related areas during his tenure as Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at Jefferson School of Medicine. The Society honors itself by conferring on Dr. Coon the 1983 Education Award.