Orville Levander
research chemist
Orville Levander, 71, a research chemist who retired in 2007 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, died Dec. 26 at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring.
He had Parkinson’s disease, said his wife, Ruth N. Levander.
Dr. Levander, a Silver Spring resident, worked 38 years for the Agriculture Research Service. His research focused chiefly on the mineral selenium.
During his career, he held visiting professorships at the University of Otago in New Zealand and Oregon State University. He was named scientist of the year by the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center in 1989 and scientist of the year by the Agricultural Research Service in 1997.
Orville Arvid Levander was a native of Waukegan, Ill., and a 1961 graduate of Cornell University. At the University of Wisconsin, he received a master’s degree in biochemistry in 1963 and a doctorate in biochemistry in 1965.
Survivors include his wife of 30 years, Ruth Novelli Levander of Silver Spring; and two children, Ximena A. Levander of New York and Alejandro X. Levander of Berkeley, Calif.
— Bart Barnes
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