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Article: OBITUARIES
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- Lake Forester (Lake Forest, IL)
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- March 10, 2005
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Ronald G. Wiegand, 75, of Lake Forest and Naples, Fla., died March 2.
Mr. Wiegand was a graduate of Arlington Heights Township High School, MIT with a Bachelor of Science degree in quantitative biology and a Masters of Science degree in chemical biology. He graduated from Emory University with a Ph.D in basic health sciences, and the University of Chicago Business School with an MBA.
At Emory, he was the first person to earn a doctor of philosophy degree in the field of basic health sciences, which embraced five areas of medical science: anatomy, bacteriology, biochemistry, physiology and pharmacology.
He received many honorary degrees: Sigma Xi, national honorary scientific society, Phi ...