Walter Nance

Nance was born in Manila in 1933. He spent his childhood in Shanghai, New Orleans, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nance graduated from the Phillips Exeter Academy in 1950. He received an S.B. in Mathematics in 1954 from the University of the South, an M.D. in 1958 from Harvard Medical School, and a Ph.D. in Genetics in 1968 from the University of Wisconsin.

Nance was assistant professor of medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine from 1963 to 1969 and professor of medical genetics and medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine from 1969 to 1975. In 1975, Nance accepted a position at the Virginia Commonwealth University.^{[citation needed]}

Nance and his wife Mayna Avent retired to Sewanee, Tennessee. He died on October 17, 2021, at the age of 88.^[1]

• Retirement of Walter Nance from chair at VCU.

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