Dr. Lee D. Simon, a Wyncote resident and a former professor of microbiology at Rutgers University, died peacefully on Thursday, May 2 at his home. He was 84.

According to his obituary, Dr. Simon received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1961 and went on to complete a graduate program in biology at the University of Oregon. He received his PhD in Biology in 1966 from the University of Rochester.

After graduation, he joined the faculty of the Institute for Cancer Research (now Fox Chase Cancer Center) in Philadelphia as a microbiologist. He was a professor at the Waxman Institute at Rutgers University in from 1976 until his retirement in 2010.

His iconic image of a bacteriophage infecting a virus is still used in biology textbooks, his obituary said.

His scholarly contributions to academia can be found here.

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