Howard Kapnek Schachman[1][2] (December 5, 1918 – August 5, 2016) was a graduate school professor in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
[5] He initially pursued liberal arts in college while studying to become a rabbi, before switching to chemical engineering in a university.
[6] He transferred from the University of Pennsylvania to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 1939 with a chemical engineering degree.
He signed but protested the loyalty oath required by the Regents of the University of California during McCarthyism.
Each spring, he taught the MCB 293C course on Ethical Conduct of Research required for NIH-funded students.