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Alumni In the News - March 24, 2002
The World's Oldest Practicing Scientist

Article Dr. Ray Crist, class of 1920, has had a long and distinguished career as a scientist, including work on the Manahattan Project. He has been a professor at three different American colleges and universities, and he currently travels daily to his research lab at Messiah College. Dr. Crist was featured in the winter 2002 issue of Dickinson Magazine.

A week after celebrating his 102nd birthday (on March 18th), Dr. Crist was profiled in an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer's magazine on Sunday, March 24, 2002.

Dr. Ray Crist