his presidential addresses urged scientists to resist nuclear armament and restrictions on free exchanges among scientists across national boundaries imposed in the name of national loyalty and security. He was also a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He published a scientific paper in every decade of the 20th century. Each year, Columbia University hosts a lecture in honor of Heidelberger and Elvin A. Kabat, his first PhD student. Notes External links Eisen, H. N. Michael Heidelberger, Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences The Official Site of Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Michael Heidelberger Papers (1901–1990) – National Library of Medicine finding aid The Michael Heidelberger Papers – Profiles in Science, National Library of Medicine Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture at Columbia University 1888 births 1991 deaths American centenarians American people of German-Jewish descent Jewish American scientists American immunologists Jewish physicians 20th-century American chemists Jewish chemists Malariologists National Medal of Science laureates Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research Columbia College (New York) alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Columbia University faculty Men centenarians Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Foreign Members of the Royal Society Recipients of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award People from the Upper West Side Members of the American Philosophical Society