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Biochemist Howard Schachman, an advocate for research ethics, dies at 97

August 10, 2016

Howard K. Schachman, an influential biochemist who became a political and scientific activist, challenging not only California’s loyalty oath and its mandatory retirement rules but also the way fraud is dealt with in science, died Friday, Aug. 5, from complications of pneumonia at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland. A professor of the graduate school…