Nevin S. Scrimshaw

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Nevin Stewart Scrimshaw (January 20, 1918 - February 8, 2013) was an American food scientist and Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Scrimshaw was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. During the course of his long career he developed nutritional supplements for alleviating protein, iodine, and iron deficiencies in the developing world. His pioneering and extensive publications in the area of human nutrition and food science include over 20 books and monographs and hundreds of scholarly articles. Scrimshaw also founded the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama, and the Nevin Scrimshaw International Nutrition Foundation. He was awarded the Bolton L. Corson Medal in 1976 and the World Food Prize in 1991. Scrimshaw spent the last years of his life on a farm in Thornton, New Hampshire, where he died at 95.

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Works

• 1968: (with John Everett Gordon) Malnutrition, learning and behavior, MIT Press
• 1968: (with Carl E. Taylor and John Everett Gordon) Interactions of nutrition and infection, World Health Organization Monograph #57
• 1971: (with Alan Berg & David L. Call) Nutrition, national planning and development, MIT Press
• 1971: (editor with Aaron M. Altschul) Amino acid fortification of protein foods, MIT Press
• 1974: (editor with Moises Behar) Nutrition and agricultural development: significance and potential for the tropics, Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama, Plenum Press
• 1975: (with Max Milner & Daniel I. C. Wang) Protein resources and technology, Avi Publishing
• 1982: (with Mitchel B. Wallerstein) Nutrition policy implementation: issues and experience, Plenum Press

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Awards and honours

• American Medical Association/Joseph B. Goldberger Award in Clinical Nutrition, 1969
• Institute of Food Technologists Bor S. Luh International Award, 1969 (known then as the IFT International Award)
• member, National Academy of Sciences, 1971
• American Society for Nutrition/Conrad Elvehjem Award for Public Service in Nutrition, 1976
• Bolton S. Corson Medal, 1976
• Fellow of the American Institute of Nutrition, 1985
• Bristol-Myers Award for Distinguished Achievements in Nutrition Research, 1988
• World Food Prize, 1991

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References

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Further reading

• Chandler, David L. (February 11, 2013). "Nevin S. Scrimshaw, pioneer in nutrition research, dies at 95". MIT News Office. Retrieved 11 February 2013
• Baker, Billy (January 28, 2008). "At 90, he lives the lifestyle he preaches". Boston Globe. Retrieved 29 May 2012 (subscription required)
• Keusch, Gerald T. (J.Hanuary 2001). "The history of nutrition: Malnutrition, infection and immunity". The Journal of Nutrition. Retrieved 29 May 2012 (subscription required)
• Bhargava, Alok (July, 2013) "Nelvin S. Scrimshaw (1918 - 2003) : Remembrances" Economics and Human Biology 11(3):403,4 doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2013.03.001

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External links

• Works by and about Nevin S. Scrimshaw on WorldCat

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