Weaver, Lawrence

Born January 23, 1924 in Bloomfield, Iowa to Wilbur and Faye Weaver, Lawrence C. Weaver was the eldest of three sons. He spent his childhood living and learning on the family farm and one-room school in southeastern Iowa. He joined the U.S. Air Force in 1942, served as a pilot, and rose to the rank of Captain. He flew in the China-Burma-India theatre and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and an Air Medal. He returned to the States and earned a Bachelor s degree in Pharmacy from Drake University in 1949. 

In 1994, Weaver was summoned back to the Deanship of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Minnesota. He served in this capacity for two years and directed the implementation of the new entry level Pharm.D. curriculum. Since 1996, Dean Emeritus Lawrence C. Weaver has been a member of the Peters Institute of Pharmaceutical Care, developing educational and research programs in pharmaceutical care practice. Larry Weaver has had a distinguished career in pharmacy. 

DaRoza, R. and Weaver, C. (1985) Is ir Safe to Wear Contact Lenses with a Full-Facepiece Respirator UCRL-53653, August 16. 1985, United States Government, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94551. 

It assembled itself by stages. He was not yet ready emotionally to set aside his peacetime plans. Warren Weaver, the director of the division of natural sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation, visited Berkeley in February to see how construction was progressing on the 4,900-ton, 184-inch cyclotron for which the foundation had awarded a 1,150,000 grant less than twelve months earlier. Lawrence took time to complain about the Uranium Committee s sloth—Weaver worked with another division of the NDRC— but then drove up behind the university to the cyclotron site on the hillside and first irritated and then enthralled the Rockefeller administrator with visions of a superior and much larger machine. 

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