Denham Harman

(1916- ) lives in Omaha. Physician, biochemist, educator, known for originating in 1954 his widely accepted free radical theory of the aging process, he co-founded the American Aging Association in 1970, and was nominated in 1995 for the Nobel Prize in medicine; faculty member of University of Nebraska Medical Center since 1958. Consult Journal of Gerontology, Vol 11 (1956) 298-300 and Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Vol 88 (June 1991) 5360-5363 and Omaha World Herald, April 6, 1996, pp. 31, 33 and Annals of New York Academy of Science, Vol 928 (2001) 1-21 and Lincoln Journal Star, May 26, 2003, p. B-2.

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