John S. Wishnok ’65 MAT, ’68 PhD

John S. Wishnok ’65 MAT, ’68 PhD, of Newburyport, Mass. Mar. 14. He began a three-year career teaching chemistry and physics and coaching wrestling at the high school level in Clarkston, Wash. before matriculating at Brown. In 1970, he joined the chemistry faculty at Boston University, and in 1972, he joined MIT’s department of nutrition and food science and stayed with the Tannenbaum Lab as the department evolved. He retired in 2017 as a senior research scientist. He was instrumental in developing the Bioengineering and Toxicology Seminar (BATS) program, which he led for more than 30 years. The department established the Wishnok Prize in 2015 in his honor. He is survived by his partner Judith Chaffee, two daughters, a son-in-law, and a sister.