W. E. C. Moore
Walter Edward Cladek Moore was an American microbiologist who was instrumental in founding The Anaerobe Lab at Virginia Tech. The Anaerobe Lab was built in 1970 and was a world leader in developing techniques to grow anaerobic bacteria in culture. With other faculty members he co-wrote the Anaerobe Manual.
He married colleague Lillian "Peg" Haldeman in 1985. They were married until his death. She died in 2020 and was survived by three stepsons.