| Bob Hodges | |||||||||||||||
| Sport: | Speed skating | ||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 30 December 1943 | ||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Death Place: | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada | ||||||||||||||
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Robert Stanley Hodges (30 December 1943 - 16 April 2021) was a Canadian speed skater and scientist.[1] He competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics and the 1972 Winter Olympics.[2] He later became a scientist, earning his PhD from the University of Alberta, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher under Robert Bruce Merrifield at Rockefeller University.[3] He became a professor at the University of Alberta and later at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.[3] He died at his home in Saskatoon on 16 April 2021.[3]