Elmer Ellsworth Fleck *28

ELMER ELLSWORTH FLECK, prestigious research chemist, died July 6, 1992, at the age of 89. Son of a clergyman, Dr. Fleck grew up in Lincoln, Neb., and graduated from Lincoln H.S. He earned a bachelor's degree at the Univ. of Nebraska in 1924 and a master's deg cc in 1925. In graduate school at Princeton, he did thesis research in the field of organic chemistry under the direction of the late Prof. Lauder Jones. In recognition of his firstyear research with Prof. Jones, Princeton granted him a Harvard fellowship for two consecutive years, 1926 and 1927. After earning his doctorate, he spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow in Germany. In 1928, he returned to the U.S. and to the staff of the Rockefeller Institute, where he spent six years. The following two years he spent with E. 1. DuPont. In 1936 he went to the Beltsville, Md., laboratories of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture as a specialist in pesticide research, in which he was granted nine patents. He retired in 1972. He is survived by two sons and a daughter. To them and to his friends we extend our sympathy.

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