Samuel Lowry Hood

Background

Hood, Samuel Lowry was born on July 28, 1918 in Cambridge, Ohio, United States. Son of Willard and Maude (Lowry) Hood.

Education

Bachelor, College of Wooster, Ohio, 1940; postgraduate, Ohio State University, 1940-1941; Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry, Cornell Univercity, 1949.

Career

Chemist, United States Department of Agriculture, Wooster, Ohio., 1941-1942; chemist, unites states department agriculture Nutrition Laboratory, Ithaca, New York, 1942-1944; biochemist, United States Atomic Energy Commission, Large Animal Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1948-1953; biochemist, C.F. Kettering Foundation, Yellow Springs, Ohio., 1953-1963; biochemist, Nuclear science & Engineer Corporation, Pittsburgh, 1963-1968; biochemist, U. Pittsburgh, United States School Public Health, 1968-1969; professor biochemistry, California University of Pennsylvania, 1969-1983; professor emeritus, California University of Pennsylvania, since 1983.

Achievements

• Samuel Lowry Hood has been listed as a noteworthy biochemist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Volunteer teacher Roper Mount Science Center, Greenville, South Carolina, since 1985. With United States Army, 1944-1946. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute Biological Science, American Chemical Society, New York Academy of Sciences, Audubon Society, Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, Radiation Research Society, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Mella Ann Martin, December 16, 1950. 1 child, Mary Ann Slavin.

Father:

Willard Hood

Mother:

Maude (Lowry) Hood

Spouse:

Mella Ann Martin

child:

Mary Ann Slavin Hood