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Floyd A. Peyton
The Michigan Alumnus 310
The Michigan Alumnus 310
FLOYD A. PEYTON, Sc.D.'33, Pro fessor of Dentistry (Dental Mater ials), teaches courses involving the physical characteristics of restorative dental materials, but he is also serv ing as director of numerous research projects over in the Dental School sponsored by the office of Naval Re search and the U. S. Public Health Service. These series of projects involve study in an effort to improve characteristics of restorative materi als in dental operations.
Professor Peyton was born in Charleston, Indiana. He earned the A.B. degree at Indiana University, and the M.S. from the Michigan College of Mining and Technology, where he was a teaching assistant. He joined the University of Michigan faculty as a lecture assistant in chemistry in 1930, and three years later he joined W.V.B. Ames Dental Cement Company in Fremont, Ohio, but rejoined the
University faculty in 1935 as Instructor in Dental Metallurgy. He remained with the University until 1945, when he joined the staff of the University of Texas. For three months that year, he served as Visiting Professor at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala City. He was a member of the Texas faculty until returning to the Univer sity of Michigan as a Professor in September 1948. Professor Peyton is co-author of the text, "The Resins Used In Dentistry," with S. D. Tyl man, of the University of Illinois, and he is a contributor to the "American Textbook Of Operative Dentistry," edited by A. B. Gabel. He also has prepared articles for numerous peri odicals. Besides being an honorary member of the American Dental As sociation, he is a member of the In ternational Association of Dental Re search, Sigma Xi, Alpha Chi Sigma, Gamma Alpha and the American Chemical Society. When time per mits, he does Boy Scout work, and for a number of years has served on the local council, working with adults, and on various troop committees. He also enjoys outdoor activities and making home movies. He is married to the former Beatrice Stodden, '32-34, '35-36, and they have two sons, ages nine and a half and twelve years.