Loney Gordon

Loney Clinton Gordon
Born
Loney Clinton

October 8, 1915
Arkansas
DiedJuly 16, 1999(1999-07-16) (aged 83)
East Lansing, Michigan
Alma materMichigan State College
Scientific career
FieldsBacteriology, Public Health

Loney O. Clinton Gordon (1915–1999), also known as Loney Clinton, was an African American chemistry laboratory assistant whose bacteriological virulence research led to a pertussis vaccine in 1942, an effective protection against whooping cough developed in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with doctors Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering.

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