Employer TACOM | ||
Born 1924 Minden, Louisiana Alma mater Tennessee State University | ||
Dorothy McClendon (born 1924) is an American microbiologist.
Life
Mclenden was born in Minden, Louisiana in 1924. She was brought up in Detroit, Michigan, where she attended Cass Technical High School, she then attended A & I State University in Tennessee, where she earned a BSc in biology. After post-graduate study in universities including Purdue, she taught in public schools in Phoenix, Arizona and Eldorado, Arkansas. She then joined TACOM, in the early 1960s, and spent a long career developing methods to protect stored goods, notably fuel, from degradation due to biological agents.
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