History of Science

Perhaps it should be added that the American Institute of Nutrition (AIN), alone among societies that are members of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), has a Committee on the History of Nutrition, and also has published a two-volume, 1,162-page compilation of the biographies of 128 Founders of Nutrition Science, retrieved from their publication in the Journal of Nutrition over the past 62 years.

Written byThomas Jukes

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Science, retrieved from their publication in the Journal of Nutrition over the past 62 years. The archivist of AIN is William J. Darby, who maintains the large collection of nutritional memorabilia at Vanderbilt University.

THOMAS H. JUKES
Department of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley
6701 San Pablo Ave.
Oakland, Calif. 94608

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