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Stewart Lawrence Tuckey

Dr. S. L. Tuckey retired as professor of dairy technology at the University of Illinois, August 31, 1972, after a distinguished career of 40 years as teacher, researcher, and counselor.

Stewart Tuckey was born in Browns Valley, Minnesota, August 24, 1905. He attended the public schools there and later his family1 moved to Illinois where he graduated from Peoria Manual Training school in 1924.

He attended Bradley Polytechnic Institute in Peoria for one year. Employed part-time in a creamery, he became interested in dairy manufacturing and enrolled in the University of Illinois, receiving the B.S. degree in 1928. That year he was appointed assistant in the then department of dairy husbandry. He received the M.S. degree in 1930.

Stewart continued graduate study. He contributed, by X-ray diffraction analysis, significantly new information on the crystalline structure of milk proteins and on cheese ripening. His thesis submitted in partial fullfilment for the Ph.D. degree in 1937 was the basis by which a committee of senior members of ADSA selected him, at the age of 34