Two faculty named Wisconsin Academy fellows

Two UW–Madison professors and a former mayor of Milwaukee have been named fellows of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.

UW–Madison biochemistry professor emeritus Helmut Beinert and astronomy professor emeritus Arthur Code have been named fellows of the Wisconsin Academy, the highest honor that can be conferred by the organization, and a distinction limited to 50 living citizens of Wisconsin.

Also named a fellow was Frank Zeidler, a former mayor of Milwaukee and one of Wisconsin’s most eminent civic leaders.

Beinert joined the UW–Madison faculty in 1950 and performed most of his research at the university’s Institute for Enzyme Research. Nominated for a Nobel Prize on more than one occasion, Beinert was known for his use of paramagnetic resonance spectroscopic techniques to study the functions of enzymes.

Code also joined the UW–Madison faculty in 1950. He is internationally known for his work in the areas of stellar and galactic astronomy, radiation transfer theory and the development of astronomical instrumentation. He founded the UW–Madison Space Astronomy Laboratory and played key roles in the development of space telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photopolarimeter Experiment, a telescope deployed twice aboard the space shuttle.

To be considered for fellowship in the academy, one’s career must be marked by an unusually high order accomplishment of discovery; technological development; creative productivity in literature, poetry or the fine or practical arts; historical analysis; legal or judicial interpretation; or philosophical thinking.