White, Clayton S., 1912-

Clayton S. White, M.D.

Clayton Samuel White, known as Sam, was born in Fort Collins, Colorado on October 11, 1912. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1934 with a degree in psychology and minors in mathematics and physics. Having won a Rhodes Scholarship in 1935, he earned a baccalaureate in physiology at Oxford and received a year and a half of credit at the medical school of the University of Colorado, where he received his medical degree in 1942. Immediately following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Dr. White entered service in the navy. While in the service, Dr. White conducted research on oxygen masks and liquid oxygen converters on Naval aircraft, among other projects. It was during this period that Dr. White made the acquaintance of William Randolph Lovelace II. This meeting began a series of collaborations that would eventually draw Dr. White out of the navy and into New Mexico.

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