George Karreman was the first president of the Society for Mathematical Biology.
10 Facts About George Karreman
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George Karreman became one of Rashevsky' s best PhD students in Mathematical Biophysics.
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In 1950 George Karreman underwent experimental heart surgery for an aortic coarctation at the University of Chicago.
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George Karreman married Anneke Halbertsma in 1953, and they moved to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where their daughter, Grace, was born in 1954.
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In succession, his first son, Frank George Karreman was born in 1958, and then in 1962 his second son, Hubert-Jan.
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George Karreman was an exceptionally devoted educator, who was always supportive of his research associates, family, and friends; he was a generous man, obviously having not forgotten Rashevsky's help in his early life at the University of Chicago.
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George Karreman was awarded a University of Chicago Fellowship that supported him to complete a Ph.
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George Karreman was appointed associate professor of physiology at the School of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked at the Bockus Research Institute at the Graduate Hospital.
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George Karreman was promoted to Full Professor of Physiology at the same university in 1972, where he held this position until 1983, when he became the first Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Biology.
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George Karreman was a member of several prestigious scientific societies, including the American Physiological Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Franklin Institute, the Society for Supramolecular Biology, Sigma Xi, the Physiological Society of Philadelphia, and the Society for Vascular System Dynamics.