Raymond Leslie White (1943–2018)

Raymond Leslie White View Large Image Figure Viewer Download Hi-res image Download (PPT) Raymond Leslie White was born in Orlando, Florida on October 23rd, 1943, during the second World War. His dad, Larry, was a navigator on B-29s and his mom, Marjorie, was a belle from an old Florida family. After the war, they moved back to his father’s hometown of Springfield, OR, where Ray grew up hunting and fishing with his dad and acquired his life-long love of the outdoors and nature. Ray attended college at the University of Oregon. His mentors in the Department of Microbiology, Frank and Mary Stahl, and George Striesinger, thought Ray had great potential as a scientist and supported his application to MIT, where he subsequently attended graduate school and received his Ph.D. under the guidance of Maury Fox