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Obituaries

Obituary: John A. Gurney

by Alexandra A. Taylor
October 15, 2021 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 99, Issue 38

 

John A. Gurney, 90, died April 27 in Phoenix, Arizona.

“I most fondly remember working with him in his lab on my junior high school science fair project. He taught me about thin layer chromatography using slides he had in his lab. We found candies and other foods that used the cancer-causing red dye number 5 that we were all so worried about during the 1970s. He helped me win first prize!”—Michelle Van De Graaff, daughter

Most recent title: Chemist, Orange-Sol

Education: PhD, organic chemistry, Brigham Young University, 1948

Survivors: Daughters, DeNeece Tueller and Michelle Van De Graaff

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