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Industry mourns death of chemist Neil Lowry.(IN MEMORIUM)(Obituary)

Aquatics International

| June 01, 2006 | Dumas, Bob | COPYRIGHT 2006 Hanley-Wood, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Dr. R. Neil Lowry, a well-known consultant to the aquatics industry in the United States and Canada has passed away. He was 67.

Lowry, a resident of Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, died suddenly March 28 after returning home from teaching a daylong water chemistry class.

Lauded industrywide as one of the profession's top chemists, Lowry was the principal-in-charge of Lowry & Associates, a specialty chemical distributorship. He was the chief educator and owner of the Lowry School of Pool & Spa Chemistry, as well as a contributing writer and commentator for numerous trade publications.

In addition, he was the original author of Pool & Spa Chemistry: A Testing & Treatment Guide, widely recognized as the authority on water quality management.

Lowry worked as an adviser to the Professional Pool Operators or Americas board or directors and was the only Canadian voting member on the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals' Recreational Water Quality Committee.

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