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Luther A. Black (1904–1973)

Dr. Luther A. Black, widely known for his important contributions to the development an operation of the U.S. Public Health Service Grade A Milk Program, died at the age of 69 on January 24, 1973, after a short illness.

Dr. Black received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D degrees in bacteriology from the University of Illinois. From 1926 to 1927, he was employed as Bacteriologist in the State Health Department, Springfield, Illinois, and from 1928 to 1930, as Assistant Professor of Bacteriology and Associate Dairy Bacteriologist at the State College of Washington Agricultural Experiment Station in Pullman, Washington. From 1930 to 1935, he was Associate Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Maryland in College Park and was Professor of Bacteriology at that institution from 1936 to 1941.

His career in the U.S. Public Health Service began in 1941 as a Bacteriologist in the Sanitation Section in Washington, D.C. In 1943 he was transferred to Cincinnati, Ohio.