Winford Lee Lewis

Winford Lee Lewis (May 29, 1878 – January 20, 1943) In 1908 he and his wife Myrlilla C Lewis had a daughter Miriam Lewis. He attended Stanford University and graduated in 1902. In 1909, he graduated with a degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago. He became a chemistry professor at Northwestern University until the outbreak of World War I. During the war, he served in the United States Chemical Warfare Service. After the war, Lewis gave several high profile speeches in the defense of the Chemical Warfare Service and the use of chemical weapons in warfare.

Publications On the action of Fehling's solution on malt sugar (1909) Prices of drugs and pharmaceuticals (1919) Meat through the microscope: applications of chemistry and the biological sciences to some problems of the meat packing industry (1940)

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