Wheeler, Ruth (1877–1948)

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Wheeler, Ruth (1877–1948)

American nutritionist. Born Aug 5, 1877, in Plains, PA; died Sept 29, 1948, in Poughkeepsie, NY; dau. of Jared Ward Wheeler (wholesale provision-house manager) and Martha Jane (Evans) Wheeler; Yale University, PhD in physiological chemistry, 1913.

Taught nutrition at University of Illinois (1912–18); served as chair of national committee on nutrition of Red Cross (1917–32); helped organize (1917) and was president of American Dietetic Association (1924–26); headed new department of nutrition at College of Medicine of State University of Iowa (1921–26); worked as professor of physiology and nutrition at Vassar College (1926–44); published American Red Cross Textbook on Food and Nutrition (1927).

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