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Nevin S. Scrimshaw

Nevin S. Scrimshaw is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Nevin S. Scrimshaw rather than just read about it. In short: 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.

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Reference excerpt

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.

Life Scrimshaw came from New England, and spent the 1930s and 1940s there studying nutrition, especially protein combining, alongside his wife and fellow scientist, Mary Goodrich. In the 1950s and 1960s, they lived in Guatemala and India. They designed meals using local vegetables to fight against the scourge of kwashiorkor. In Guatemala they used the combination of cottonseed flour with maize, while in India they combined peanut flour with wheat. His daughter is medical anthropologist and academic administrator Susan C. Scrimshaw.

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

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

References

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. (January 1, 2003). "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

External links Works by and about Nevin S. Scrimshaw on WorldCat

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Nevin S. Scrimshaw

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Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Nevin S. Scrimshaw before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Nevin S. Scrimshaw ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Nevin S. Scrimshaw

In research: Nevin S. Scrimshaw appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Nevin S. Scrimshaw in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Nevin S. Scrimshaw is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1918 births, 2013 deaths, Academic staff of United Nations University, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Nevin S. Scrimshaw outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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