Dr. Franklin M. Loew - Portrait
- A-10527
- Item
- July 1969
Head and shoulders image of Dr. Franklin M. Loew, pathologist, Western College of Veterinary Medicine.
Bio/Historical Note: Dr. Franklin Martin Loew was born in 1939 in Syracuse, New York. He received his DVM from Cornell and a PhD in nutrition from the University of Saskatchewan. During the 1970s Dr. Loew was one of the many members of the research team that developed canola oil. In 1977 the Governor-General of Canada awarded Dr. Loew a Queen's Jubilee Medal. In the same year he became the head of the Division of Comparative Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Loew died in 2003 in Boston.