Switzerland. He served for two years, saying he "fell completely in love with Switzerland", authoring three books related to this history of science in Switzerland: Science in Switzerland (1965), Modern Switzerland, and History of Switzerland: The First Hundred Thousand Years; From Before the Beginnings to the Days of the Present (1985). He served at the US Embassy in London for a period of two months in 1967, and for another two months as acting science attaché at the embassy in Stockholm. Other interests Luck had an interest in nutrition science, and conducted a local survey each year on the cost of a balanced diet from the 1950s to the 1960s. Luck published his first book in 1945, The War on Malnutrition and Poverty: The Role of the Consumer Cooperatives. As President of the Pacific Division of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Luck gave a speech in regards to human population growth, saying that abortion should be permitted and encouraged in some cases, which proved highly controversial. In its obituary of him, the New York Times called Luck "an early advocate of abortion as a means of worldwide population control". Personal life and death Luck was married to Eroeda Nicholaevna Sinitskaya Luck in 1947; they had a son and daughter together. He was one of the founders of the Palo Alto Co-op, which became consumer-owned grocery stores, the Palo Alto Credit Union, and the Peninsula Housing Association, a housing cooperative. Luck died of cardiac failure on August 26, 1993, at his home in Menlo Park, California. He was 93. References 1899 births 1993 deaths Scientists from Ontario Canadian biochemists Stanford University faculty University of Toronto alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Annual Reviews (publisher) editors