Wilbur Olin Atwater
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American agricultural chemist; developer of the respiration calorimeter.
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wilbur Olin Atwater was an American chemist known for his studies of human nutrition and metabolism, and is considered the father of modern nutrition research and education. He is credited with developing the Atwater system, which laid the groundwork for nutrition science in the United States and inspired modern Olympic nutrition.
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- A New Respiration Calorimeter and Experiments on the Conservation of Energy in the Human Body. I (1899) (40)
- On the nutritive value of fish. (1880) (20)
- DESCRIPTION OF A BOMB-CALORIMETER AND METHOD OF ITS USE. (1903) (14)
- Dietary studies with reference to the food of the negro in Alabama in 1895 and 1896 : conducted with the cooperation of the tuskegee normal and industrial institute and the agricultural and mechanical College of Alabama (12)
- Brooklyn eagle government cook book ; Fish eggs and fruit ; Principles of nutrition and nutritive value of foods / (8)
- The Chemical Composition and Nutritive Value of Fish (4)
- A Table of Food Values (1894) (3)
- International Chemical Congresses. (1894) (2)
- Contributions from the laboratory of the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale College; No. XXII, On the proximate composition of several varieties of American maize (1869) (2)
- On sources of error in determination of nitrogen by soda-lime, and means for avoiding them (1)
- On certain sources of loss in the determination of nitrogen by soda-lime (1)
- Experiments with fertilizers on fruits and vegetables, to study the feeding capacities of the plants and the variations due to the action of fertilizers. (0)
- American fisheries: a history of the menhaden, by G. Brown Goode; with an account of the agricultural uses of fish by W. O. Atwater, and an introduction, bringing the subject down to date. (0)
- Record Unit 7391 Wilbur Olin Atwater Papers, circa 1883-1889 (0)
- The Digestibility of Fish (0)
- A Study of the Food Consumed and Digested by Four Members of the Harvard University Boat Crew in June, 1900 (1901) (0)
- The Chemical Composition and Nutritive Value of Our American Food Fishes and Invertebrates (0)
- On the Nutritive Value of Fish (1880) (0)
- The Chemical Changes Produced in Oysters in Floating, and their Effect upon the Nutritive Value (0)
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