James L. Lords papers, 1959-1998

James L. Lords was born in Salt Lake City in 1928. He received his B.S. and M.S. in vertebrate zoology at the University of Utah in 1950 and 1951. Afterwards, he served in the Chemical Corps of the U.S. Army. In 1960, he earned his Ph.D in Botany at the University of Utah. After a two year stint as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Lords returned to the University of Utah as an Assistant Professor of Experimental Biology in 1962. His areas of specialty were in thermophilic organisms and the effects of electromagnetic radiation, especially microwaves, on biological systems from the subcellular to the organismal level. He later held dual professorships in the Department of Biology and in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Dr. James L. Lords retired in 1998 and earned Emeritus status that same year.