The late A..E. Wilder-Smith studied
natural sciences at Oxford, England. He received his first
doctorate in Physical Organic Chemistry at Reading University,
England, 1941. Subsequently, Dr. Wilder-Smith was appointed
Director of Research for a Swiss pharmaceutical company.
Later he was elected to teach Chemotherapy and Pharmacology at the
Medical School of the University of Geneva for which position he
received his "habitation" (the senior examination required for
professorial appointments to European continental universities).
At Geneva, he earned his second doctorate, followed by a third
doctorate from the ETH (a senior university in Switzerland) in
Zurich.
In 1957-1958 Wilder-Smith was Visiting
Assistant Professor at the Medical Centre of the University of
Illinois, 1959-1961 Visiting Full Professor of Pharmacology of the
University of Bergen Medical School in Norway. After a further two
years at the University of Geneva, he was appointed Full Professor
of Pharmacology at the University of Illinois Medical Centre. Here
he received in three succeeding years - three ``Golden Apple
Awards" for the best course of lectures, together with four senior
lecturer awards for the best series of year lectures. Dr.
Wilder-Smith's last Golden Apple award was inscribed, ``He made us
not only better scientists, but also better
men."
