Reuben G. Gustavson

(1892-1974) lived in Lincoln. Chemist, educator, administrator, known for research with glandular secretion and sex hormones, served as liaison between atomic energy project at University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Army, was chancellor of University of Nebraska, where he encouraged use of United Nations programs and world outreach efforts; served as director of Ford Foundation's Resources for the Future. Consult Lincoln Star obituary, February 24, 1974, p. B-1 and Nebraska History Vol 57 (Fall 1976) 379-397 and Biographical Dictionary of Internationalists (Greenwood Press, 1983) 308-309.

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