Tove, Samuel B., 1921-1994.

Samuel B. Tove was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 1921 July 29. He graduated with a B.S. in animal husbandry from Cornell University in 1943, and received an M.S. and Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1948 and 1950. Tove joined the faculty at the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (later North Carolina State University) in 1950, beginning as a research assistant professor. Subsequently an associate (1955) and then full (1960) professor of animal science and biochemistry, Tove was a renowned authority on lipid metabolism. He was named a William Neal Reynolds Professor in 1975, and, among memberships in many professional and honorary societies, was a fellow in the American Society for Nutrition. He served as chair of the Faculty Senate, and was chair of the Department of Biochemistry from 1975 until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1987. The Samuel B. Tove Award for graduate teaching was subsequently established at the department in his honor. Tove died in Raleigh, North Carolina, on 1994 December 31.

Samuel B. Tove (1921-1994) of Baltimore, Maryland, was a researcher and professor of animal science and biochemistry at North Carolina State University from 1950 to 1987. A renowned authority on lipid metabolisms, he was a William Neal Reynolds Professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry.