William F. Harrington
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William Fields Harrington was born in Seattle on September 25, 1920.[1][2] As a young man, Harrington worked at a Seattle aircraft manufacturing plant, then served in the US Marine Corps during World War II.[3] After the war, Harrington enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley where he earned his BS degree, followed by a PhD in the laboratory of Howard Schachman, where he studied the structure of tobacco mosaic virus.[1][4] While at Berkeley, he met Austrian-born musician Ingeborg Leuschner; the couple married in 1948.[5] After his PhD, Harrington moved on to successive postdoctoral researcher positions: first a year at Cambridge University, then in the laboratory of Kai Linderstrom-Lang at the Carlsberg Laboratory.[1]