The 2023 Sterling B. Hendricks Memorial Lecturer recipient, Gary List is a veteran of the U.S. Army and served as a technician at the US Army medical laboratory at Edgewood Arsenal, MD. The Secretary of Defense recognized his contributions with a commendation and a promotion to E-5. Mr. List worked for ARS for 44 years (1963-2007) at the Northern Regional Research Laboratory in Peoria, IL. His research has encompassed every phase of oilseed processing and edible fats and oils. Dr. List has 490 publications, including forty-five book chapters, and has edited eight books. He was the co-author of two publications in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. He has contributed to four revisions of the standard fats and oils textbook “Baileys Industrial Oil and Fat Products”(1985, 1996, 2005, 2020). The University of Illinois awarded Dr. List an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 2011 in recognition for his research on soybean oil.
The Sterling B. Hendricks Lecture was established in 1981 by ARS to honor the memory of Sterling B. Hendricks (1902-1981) and to recognize scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the chemical science of agriculture.
