MIDDLETON – Owen Fennema, age 83, of Middleton, passed away due to complications from bladder cancer, surrounded by family on Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, at Agrace HospiceCare. Owen was a professor of food science at the University of Wisconsin?Madison from 1960 until his retirement in 1996. During that time, he served on numerous professional boards and committees, including the American Chemical Society, the Council for Agriculture Science and Technology and the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), for which he served in multiple capacities, including as president from 1982 to 1983. In a lifetime of stellar achievements, Owen was recognized world-wide for the publication of a seminal book for food science scholars, Fennema?s Food Chemistry, published in four editions and multiple languages and which is still in wide use today throughout the world.
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