Allen Edward Blaurock

Background

Blaurock, Allen Edward was born on August 28, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Edward Emil Blaurock and Irma Florence (Allen) MacArthur.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Physics magna cum laude, University Michigan, 1963. Master of Science in Physics, University Michigan, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, University Michigan, 1967.

Master of Arts in Teaching, National Louis University, 2000.

Career

National Science Foundation predoctoral fellow in physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1964-1966; National Institutes of Health/Public Health Services fellow in biophysics, King's College, London, England., 1967-1969; research biophysicist Cardiovasc. Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, 1969-1971; European molecular biology organization senior fellow in biophysics, King's College, London, 1971-1972; National Institutes of Health/Public Health Services senior fellow in biophysics, King's College, London, 1972-1975; research chemist, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, 1975-1979; associate professor in anatomy and biochemistry, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1979-1985; senior research scientist, Kraft Foods Technology Center, Glenview, Illinois, since 1986. Visiting associate professor in physiology Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1985-1986.

Adjunct supervisor graduate research Illinois Institute Technology, Chicago, since 1995. Consultant on neurological research Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Daresbury, England, since 1996. Co-founder BioCAT at Advanced Photon Source, Argonne (Illinois) National Laboratory.

Presenter American Biophysics Society, AIChE, American Oil Chemists Society, American Society for Neurochemistry, Society for Neurosci., Chicago Area Thermal Analysis Society, Conference on Food Engineering. Science reviewer Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1982, Methods of Enzymology, 1982, Journal Neurosci. Research, 1995; invited speaker at numerous international science meetings including 3d International Biophysics Congress, Boston, 1969, Neurosci.

Research Program Work Session on Myelin, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1970, Klausur in Schwartzwald, Titisee, Germany, 1971, Rank Prize Funds Symposium on Vertebrate Photoreception Royal Society, London, 1976, American Physical Society, Washington, 1976, 36th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, 1978, 4th Taniguchi Symposium in Biophysics, Osaka, Japan, 1978, Synchrotron X-Rays in Medicine, Daresbury, England, 1996, among others.

Achievements

• Allen Edward Blaurock has been listed as a notable Biophysicist, food scientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Oil Chemists Society (immediate past president North Control section 1996-1997, chair Bailey award committee 1996-1997, president North Control section 1995-1996, secretary 1993-1995, physical methods committee since 1988), American Society for Neurochemistry, International Society for Neurochemistry, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Teresa Noel Urban, May 1964 (divorced January 1988). Children: Madeleine Cecile Blaurock Gutow, Rosalind Noel, Carl Allen. Married Bernadette Guzzy, April 2, 1988.

Children: Walter Edward, Linnea Bertina.

Father:

Edward Emil Blaurock MacArthur

Mother:

Irma Florence (Allen) MacArthur

Spouse:

Bernadette Guzzy

Spouse:

Teresa Noel Urban

child:

Rosalind Noel Blaurock

child:

Linnea Bertina Blaurock

child:

Madeleine Cecile Blaurock Gutow Blaurock

child:

Carl Allen Blaurock

child:

Walter Edward Blaurock