Louise Slade

Research Slade is known for her work establishing the use of polymer science to the study processes in food, a field she called "food polymer science". Much of her work was a collaborative effort with Harry Levine, who was also her life partner. Their first paper "A Food Polymer Science Approach to the Practice of Cryostabilization Technology" set the stage for using polymer science to understand how food would respond to time and changes in temperature, Over the course of her career, Slade filed 47 patents, and she was elected a fellow in 2016. In 2019, Slade presented the Alsberg-French-Schoch Memorial Lectureship at the Cereal & Grain Association's annual meeting.

In 2018, a three-day symposium entitled "Water in Foods Symposium in Honor of Louise Slade and Harry Levine" was held at the American Chemical Society Annual meeting.

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