He also played a major role in the development of the molecular biology and biochemistry curricula at Haverford.
His family left the country when he was a child, escaping the rise of fascism in Europe by emigrating to England in 1936 and then to Canada in 1941.
[1][2] He moved to the United States in 1948 to attend the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received his Ph.D. in botany in 1951 for work on the motility of slime molds.
[1] After a year as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge from 1952 to 1953, Loewy returned to the U.S. to join the faculty at Haverford College.
He held the Jack and Barbara Bush Professorship in the Natural Sciences from 1983 to 1995 and spent a period as chair of the biology department.