Background
Oftedahl, Marvin Loren was born on June 21, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Mars Philip and Lillian Jeanne (Gulliver) Oftedahl.
Oftedahl, Marvin Loren was born on June 21, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Mars Philip and Lillian Jeanne (Gulliver) Oftedahl.
Bachelor, Northwestern University, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis, 1960.
Senior research chemist, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, 1960-1966; research specialist, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, 1966-1979; research group leader, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, 1979-1982; senior research group leader, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, 1983-1986; laboratory director, Washington University, 1986-1995; retired, 1995. Consultant Glycomed, Inc., Alameda, California, since 1989, Orbital Chemie, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, since 1990, G.D. Searle, Skokie, Illinois, 1986-1989.
Corporal United States Army, 1952-1954. Member American Chemical Society.
Married Elizabeth Staunton Smith, June 7, 1958. 1 child, Elizabeth Blake Carlson.