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Roswell Loses Pathbreaking Doctor Oliver Owen
Longtime Roswell native and physician Oliver E. Owen 75 died in early September after a storied career in diabetes research. A Golden Glove boxing champion, he studied at Colorado Medical School then Harvard and Johns Hopkins before teaching at Temple University Medical School and leading NIH research projects. He authored hundreds of papers, with four regarded as classics, and was once nominated for a medical Nobel Prize. His family and hometown remember him as a devoted husband father and grandfather whose work inspired future doctors.
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