Russell O. Sinnhuber is shown placing a can in the radiation chamber (Gamma rays). Russell O. Sinnhuber was a founder in 1965 of a successful research program at OSU and retired as emeritus professor of Food Science and Technology in 1981. Professor Sinnhuber was among one of the first scientists anywhere to recognize the potential of the rainbow trout as a sensitive, low-cost non-mammalian model for cancer research.