Paul K. Stumpf

• 1961 and 1969: twice a Guggenheim Fellow.
• 1974: the Stephen Hales Prize from the American Society of Plant Physiologists
• 1975: elected a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
• 1978: elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1980: President of the American Society of Plant Physiologists
• 1986-1990: chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Society of Plant Physiologists
• 1992: the Charles Reid Barnes Life Membership the American Society of Plant Physiologists
• the Lipid Chemistry Prize from the American Oil Chemists Society
• Senior Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany
• 1994: elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  Basic chronology

• 1919: born in New York City on February 23
• 1941: A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University
• 1945: Ph.D. in biochemistry, Columbia University
• 1948: an assistant professor, University of California, Berkeley
• 1958: moves to University of California, Davis the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
• 1984: retires