Britton Chance, American biologist and sailor (born 1913)

Britton Chance

American biochemist and sailor (1913–2010)

Britton "Brit" Chance was an American biochemist, biophysicist, scholar, and inventor whose work helped develop spectroscopy as a way to diagnose medical problems. He was "a world leader in transforming theoretical science into useful biomedical and clinical applications" and is…