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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.〔Nevin Scrimshaw International Nutrition Foundation. (Nevin S. Scrimshaw, Ph.D., M.D., M.P.H. ). Retrieved 29 May 2012.〕 He was awarded the Bolton L. Corson Medal in 1976 and the World Food Prize in 1991.〔The World Food Prize Foundation. (Laureates: Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw ). Retrieved 29 May 2012.〕 Scrimshaw spent the last years of his life on a farm in Thornton, New Hampshire, where he died at 95.〔Bryan Marquard (2013) (Nevin Scrimshaw obituary ) from Boston Globe〕 ==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)〔Institute of Food Technologists. (List of IFT past award winners ). Retrieved 29 May 2012.〕 * 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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nevin S. Scrimshaw」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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