Zenas Albert Slaunwhite
(1853-1924)
Mary Amanda Corkum
(1865-1961)
Frank Clark Smith
(1856-1967)
Frances Jane Grogan
(1856-1957)
Wilson Roy Slaunwhite Sr.
(1895-1988)
Grace Chadbourne Smith
(1892-1978)
Wilson Slaunwhite Jr.
(1919-2006)

 

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Wilson Slaunwhite Jr.

  • Born: 25 Sep 1919, Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  • Died: 8 Feb 2006, Scottsdale, Arizona at age 86
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http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/archive/vol37/vol37n22/columns/Obituaries.html
Roy Slaunwhite, retired professor of biochemistry
W. (Wilson) Roy Slaunwhite, a retired professor of biochemistry who was active in United University Professions, died Feb. 8 in his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 86.
A native of Waltham, Mass., Slaunwhite earned degrees in biophysics and chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He helped design the radar system that ended the Uboat threat in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.
He moved to Buffalo in 1953 to work at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. He was a principal cancer research scientist at RPCI in 1967 when he became research director of the Medical Foundation of Buffalo, now known as Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute.
Slaunwhite joined the UB faculty in 1969 as a professor of biochemistry, and also served as director of the endocrine laboratories at what is now Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo. He retired from the university in 1987.
A specialist in steroids, he authored more than 100 scholarly articles, contributed chapters in 15 books and wrote a textbook on biochemical endocrinology.
One of his significant contributions was the delineation of the androgenic pathway to determine how male hormones are made. He also discovered how to separate and analyze urinary estrogens, a measurement useful to obstetricians in determining when immediate delivery is needed to avoid loss of pregnancy.
Slaunwhite served as president of UUP's Health Sciences Chapter from 1981-86, and was an active member of the board from 1979-97, when he moved from Buffalo to Arizona. His union leadership earned him the Regina Kociecki Award from the local chapter and the Nina Mitchell Award from statewide UUP.




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