Stephen-Wainwright-Obituary

Stephen Wainwright

Durham, North Carolina

Age 88

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Stephen A. Wainwright October 9, 1931 - December 12, 2019 Durham Stephen A. Wainwright, a renowned Duke University biologist who applied engineering principals to understand organismal design, and who explored life through art, died on Dec 12 in Durham, at the age of 88. The cause was Parkinson's...

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Condolences to Steve's family. I loved the guy and learned a lot as a TA with him at Duke.
Barrie Gilbert, Wolfe island, Ontario

Steve in front of a painting of him and Charlotte .

Steve was a true scholar and Renaissance man whom I will always remember as an inspiration to us all. Caroline Vaughan

It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of our Ph. D. advisor, Steve Wainwright. Steve was a remarkable person whose vision crossed lines of science, engineering and art. Sue and I were among his early students, at a time when he gladly took on students with diverse interests, be it symbiosis, snail behavior or the physiology of sea cucumbers. He had many friends and colleagues in academia, and among them Martin Wells and Len Muscatine played major roles in our graduate...

There's not a formal way to give thanks for a great man as Mr W. was. I had the pleasure of spending time with him & letting him know what a great man he was.
He was dear in my heart NVR to be forgotten as simple things and places will remind me of him.
Words can't express how a humble man filled my heart with honour.