As tilling the soil of a Kentucky tobacco farm as a child gave way to cultivating the fields of chemical engineering at MIT as an adult, Jack B. Howard kept sight of the source of his good fortune. “He felt that everything that had happened to him his whole life was a gift, a gift from God,” Carolyn Howard said of her husband, who never felt compelled to choose, as many do, between science and religion. “The spiritual side of him was something that was extremely important to him. He was a devout Christian and it was really, really important to him that we express to people our Christianity.” A man of science and a man of faith, Mr. Howard walked an improbable path from a farmhouse with a dirt floor to founding Nano-C, a biotech company for which he also was chairman of the board of directors. Mr. Howard died of brain cancer...
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