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 Harold Amos was born on September 7, nd of 9 children of Howard R. Amos sr. and Iola Johnson. -Joyce Hester, Florine Williams, and Margaret Johnson.  His family lived in New Jersey.  went to a segregated school in Pennsauken - In 1936, he graduated from Camden High School in New Jersey.

 Attended Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. - with a full scholarship.  In 1941, he graduated from Summa Cum Laude. - Major in Biology and a minor in chemistry  Soon became employed as an assistant in the Biology Department at Springfield College.

 In 1942, he served as a warrant officer in a battalion that supplied gasoline to regular troops.  When he was in Paris, he became interested in music. - He held season tickets to the Boston Symphony Orchestra also to the opera and ballet performances - He loved bringing his friends with him.

 When he started to teach, he considered it as one of his greatest joy of all.  He was lauded for his devotion to teaching and his compassion as a mentor.  He often offer words of praises, -encouragement -advice -and support

 For over 50 years, he remained an active faculty member at Harvard Medical School.  In 1969, he became a full professor.  He was the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of: - Microbiology and - Molecular Genetics at the Harvard Medical School.

 Amos devoted much of his time and effort to supporting and encouraging minorities in biomedical science and medicine.  In 1983, he supported the establishment of the Hinton-Wright Society  He was a founding member of the National Advisory Committee of the MMFDP

 In 1958, he discovered that a compound once considered only in relation to DNA the carrier of genetic information was also present in RNA, the ribonucleic acid concerned with the transfer of amino acids.

 He was a very determined man and when he was in Paris, he said that “he wanted to be a scientist and, if he had to scrub floors with a toothbrush, he would be one.”  He spoke fluent French, read French poetry, and enjoyed his time there with the foods and wines

 In 1995, Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Sciences.  In 1999, he was awarded the first annual Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award.  Amos was one of the first two recipients of the Dr. Charles R. Drew World Medical Prize, awarded by Howard University to distinguished minority biomedical scientists.

 1991 was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  He also received the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal in 2000.

 Harold Amos was 84 years old when he suffered from stroke. - a day or two later, he was dead.  Died on February 26,2003.  He also inspired hundreds of minorities to become medical doctors. - he will forever be remembered.

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