1930
Born to Eugene Field and Mary Elizabeth (McMaster) McFadden in La Grande, OR.
1952
Earns a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry with honors from Whitman College.
1956
Earns a Doctor of Philosophy in biochemistry from the University of California Los Angeles.
1956
Teaches first as an instructor and later as a professor chemistry at Washington State University through 1966.
1963
Receives the National Institute of Health Research Career Development Award at Washington State University through 1969.
1964
Is president of the Washington-Idaho Border Section of the American Chemical Society.
1966
Teaches as a visiting professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois through 1967.
1966
Teaches as a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Washington State University until his retirement in 1997.
1967
Recieves the ASBC Travel Awards to International Congresses of Biochemistry to Tokoyo and later Hamburg in 1976 and Prauge in 1988.
1972
Receives the Guggenheim Fellowship for appointment at the University of Leicester through 1973.
1974
Receives the Distinguished Faculty Award from Washington State University.
1974
Serves as the director of science development at Washington State University through 1978.
1976
Is a fellow with the AAAS.
1977
Serves as the editor of “Archives Microbiology”; receives an honorary Doctor of Science from Whitman College.
1978
Is the chairman of the department of biochemistry at Washington State University through 1984.
1978
Is a member of the study section of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, through 1979 and again in 1982.
1980
Receives the Alexander von Humboldt Distinguished American Scientist Award from Germany for appointment at the Technical University of Munich.
1990
Receives the Faculty Excellence Award in Research from Washington State University.
2020
Is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Chemical Society.