A nationally renowned chemist, a Baltimore City clerical worker and several babies were among the 549 Marylanders memorialized Monday for donating their bodies to science in the past year.

“He believed in supporting the medical field,” said Doreen Bitman, of Silver Spring, the widow of Joel Bitman, a U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist whose research helped persuade Congress to ban the pesticide DDT.

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