Glenn W. Knox Sr. ’77

Glenn died Jan. 9, 2025.

At Princeton, he majored in geology and geophysics, graduating magna cum laude. He then earned an M.A. in biochemistry at Bryn Mawr College and a medical degree at Rutgers Medical School. He did a postdoctoral fellowship in neurotology at Baylor College of Medicine and an otolaryngology residency at Vanderbilt University, where he met his wife, Alisa. Glenn later received a law degree from the Florida Coastal School of Law and was admitted to the Georgia Bar.

He led a career as a physician, surgeon, researcher, and medical inventor. Before retiring in 2022, Glenn served as associate professor and chief of the division of otolaryngology at University of Florida Health, Jacksonville and director of the University of Pennsylvania Balance Center.

He was a NASA visiting researcher for more than 30 years and held three U.S. patents for medical devices. The self-crimping stapedectomy prosthesis became an industry standard.

Glenn authored more than 60 papers, winning multiple research grants. His sense of humor could be irreverent, goofy, intelligent, or all three at once. He will be dearly missed.

He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Alisa Kelsey Knox; children Will and his wife Audrey, and Sarah and her husband Connor; and numerous extended family members.