A memorial service for Francis Lambert, professor of physiology and biophysics, will be Tuesday, May 8, at 4 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.
Lambert, 77, of Scotia, died April 27 after a long illness.
A member of the faculty from 1955 until he retired in 1989, he served as department chair, AAC member and a number of other posts.
“His remarkable breadth of knowledge has allowed him to teach courses as diverse as `Marine Biology' and `Neurophysiology,'” said colleague Peter Tobiessen at Lambert's retirement. “He is the person we seek out to settle our biological disputes; he is our intellectual infielder.”
He served as a consultant to an NSF summer science institute at Delhi (India) University, and was named Jacques Loeb Associate in marine biology at the Rockefeller Institute's Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. He also held a National Science Foundation Fellowship and a Mark Fellowship at Harvard.
He held research grants from the American Physiological Society, and the E. N. Huyck Foundation.
A native of Virginia, he graduated from George Washington University, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Survivors include his wife, Sangvon; and a son, Peter.
Contributions may be made to Hospice of Schenectady or the Union College Scholarship Fund.
(A newspaper obituary this week incorrectly listed the time of the memorial.)