W. E. C. Moore

Walter Edward Cladek Moore (October 12, 1927 – 25 September 1996) was an American microbiologist who was instrumental in founding The Anaerobe Lab at Virginia Tech.^[1] The Anaerobe Lab was built in 1970 and was a world leader in developing techniques to grow anaerobic bacteria in culture. With other faculty members he co-wrote the Anaerobe Manual.^{[citation needed]}

He married colleague Lillian "Peg" Haldeman in 1985. They were married until his death. She died in 2020 and was survived by three stepsons (Howard Moore, Jed Moore, and David Moore).^[2]

^ Strother, Warren H.; Wallenstein, Peter (2004). From VPI to State University: President T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. and the Transformation of Virginia Tech, 1962-1974. Mercer University Press. p. 86. ISBN 9780865547872. W.E.C. Moore.
^ Sachs, Jessica Snyder (2008-09-30). Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-1-4299-2329-3.

[1] Strother, Warren H.; Wallenstein, Peter (2004). From VPI to State University: President T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. and the Transformation of Virginia Tech, 1962-1974. Mercer University Press. p. 86. ISBN 9780865547872. W.E.C. Moore.

[2] Sachs, Jessica Snyder (2008-09-30). Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-1-4299-2329-3.

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