Timeline for Chris Mathews
| 1937 | Christopher King Mathews is born on May 5 in New York City, NY. |
| 1954 | Mathews graduates from high school in Olympia, WA and enters the undergraduate chemistry program at Reed College in Portland,
OR. |
| 1958 | Mathews graduates from Reed College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry. The University of Washington in Seattle accepts Mathews into its Ph.D. in Biochemistry program. There, he is introduced to Frank M. Huennekens, his major professor. He is awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. |
| 1960 | On June 19, Chris Mathews and Catherine Anne Zitcer are married. Mathews publishes his first research article with the aid of F.M. Huennekens. The article, "Enzymatic Preparation of the l,L-Diastereoisomer of Tetrahydrofolic Acid," receives a positive response from the biochemistry community. |
| 1961 | Lawrence Mathews, Chris and Catherine's first child, is born on April 5. Mathews receives the Eli Lilly Fellowship from the University of Washington Department of Biochemistry. |
| 1962 | Mathews graduates from the University of Washington with a Doctorate in Biochemistry. He then accepts a U.S. Public Health
Service Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. There, Seymour S. Cohen
serves as his research mentor. |
| 1963 | Chris and Catherine's second child, Anne, is born February 27. Mathews accepts a position as Assistant Professor of Biology at Yale University. |
| 1967 | The University of Arizona offers Mathews a position as Associate Professor of Biochemistry, which he accepts. |
| 1969 | Robert E. Murray becomes the first doctoral candidate whose thesis is supervised by Mathews. Over the course of his career,
Mathews will supervise 35 Ph.D. candidates. |
| 1971 | Mathews publishes his first book, Bacteriophage Biochemistry. |
| 1973 | Mathews receives a promotion to full Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Arizona. That same year, Mathews takes a sabbatical leave at the Department of Biology at the University of California in San Diego, where he works with Gordon Sato and David Epel. An American Cancer Society Scholar Grant is awarded to Mathews. |
| 1978 | Mathews accepts the position of Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Oregon State University. |
| 1984 | Mathews takes a sabbatical leave at the Medical Nobel Institute at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden where he
works with Peter Reichard. That same year Mathews receives both an American Cancer Society's Eleanor Roosevelt International Cancer Fellowship and the Sigma Xi Research Award from the Oregon State University chapter. |
| 1986 | Mathews accepts a one-year appointment as Director of the Center for Gene Research and Biotechnology at Oregon State University. Mathews also receives the Discovery Award from the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon. |
| 1988 | Mathews is honored with the OSU Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award. |
| 1989 | Mathews receives the F.A. Gilfillan Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Science from the Oregon State University College
of Science. |
| 1990 | Kensal E. van Holde and Mathews co-author the first edition of Biochemistry, a successful biochemistry textbook. |
| 1991 | Mathews is named Oregon State University Distinguished Professor. |
| 1993 | The Tage Erlander Guest Professorship from the Swedish Natural Science Research Council is awarded to Mathews. |
| 1994 | Mathews takes sabbatical leave at the Department of Molecular Biology in Stockholm University, Sweden where he works with
Britt-Marie Sjöberg. |
| 2002 | Mathews retires from Oregon State University, though he continues an active research program under the title Professor Emeritus. |
| 2005 | Mathews is named the IUBMB Jubilee Lecturer by the South African Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University
of Stellenbosch, South Africa. |
| 2010 | Mathews is named Outstanding Editorial Board Member by the Journal of Biological Chemistry. |
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