The ASP Distinguished Service Award Committee, comprised of Gene Foor, Richard Clopton, Herman Eure, and me, is ecstatic that Council unanimously approved the nomination of Dr. William Campbell by Thomas Klei, with support from Roger Prichard and Robert Grieve. As expressed by Tom Klei, ASP honors itself by presenting this award to “Bill.”
First, we borrowed Bill from his native Northern Ireland and Trinity College, University of Dublin, so he could pursue graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin. We then maintained him with a stint in the University of Cambridge laboratory of Lawson Soulsby (soon after created Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior in the U.K., with an active seat in the House of Lords) and a period of travel as a Louisiana State University Inter-American Fellow; by a hire at the Merck, Sharp & Dohme Company for his illustrious career tenure lasting from 1957 to 1990; and now at...