Herbert Tabor

Herbert Tabor (born November 28, 1918 in New York City ) is an American physician and biochemist .

Life

Herbert Tabor, son of Edward Tabor and his wife Henrietta Tally Tabor, began an undergraduate degree at Harvard University after attending school , which he completed in 1937 with a Bachelor of Arts (AB). A subsequent postgraduate study of medicine at Harvard University he completed in 1941 with A. Baird Hastings with a doctor of medicine (MD). He then began his professional career and initially worked in 1942 as a doctor at Yale – New Haven Hospital at Yale University . He then moved in 1943 as a research scientist to the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases ( NIDDK ) , a research institution belonging to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). There he worked with researchers such as Louis Sokoloff , Maxine Singer and Claude Klee . In his studies, he was engaged in the study of polyamines such as putrescine and spermidine in biological materials using standard biochemical, bacteriological and genetic methods. He took over from William Howard Stein in 1971 as editor-in-chief and publisher of the Journal of Biological Chemistry and held this position for forty years until 2011, when Martha Fedor succeeded him.

In 1971 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He also became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1977 . He was also involved in the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) and the American Chemical Society . In 1995 he and his wife Celia White Tabor received the William C. Rose Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for outstanding achievements in biochemistry and molecular biology .

In his honor, the Herbert Tabor Research Award (Herbert Tabor Research Award) of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology was named, which was awarded to the geneticists Joseph L. Goldstein and Michael Stuart Brown in 2005 and to the German cell biologist Franz-Ulrich Hartl and in 2013 his American colleague Arthur Horwich and in 2014 to the Australian biologist Bruce William Stillman . In addition, the Herbert Tabor / Journal of Biological Chemistry Lectureship was named after him, which the hematologist Stuart Kornfeld took over in 2012 .

His marriage to Celia White on April 8, 1946 resulted in three sons and a daughter.

Publications

• A Guide to the Polyamines, Seymour S. Cohen , appreciation by Seymour S. Cohen , co-author Celia White Tabor , in: Analytical Biochemistry , Volume 274, Issue 1, October 1, 1999, p. 150

Web link

• Herbert Tabor (prabook.com)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1950-1999 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2. ^ Entry on the homepage of the National Academy of Sciences