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Food scientist

Jacob Christopher Bauernfeind, American food scientist. Achievements include 8 patents on vitamins, sulfa drugs. Recipient Poultry Research award Poultry Science Association, 1940. Fellow Institute Food Technologists (Industrial Achievement award 1968); member American Institute Nutrition, American Society Clinical Nutrition, American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi.

Background

Bauernfeind, Jacob Christopher was born on April 30, 1914 in N. Branch, New York, United States. Son of Edward Christopher and Nellie A. (Metzger) Bauernfeind.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Cornell University, 1936. Master of Science, Cornell University, 1939. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1940.

Career

Teaching assistant, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1936-1940; nutritionist, biochemist, Hiram Walker & Sons, Peoria, Illinois, 1940-1943; chief applied nutrition, Hoffmann LaRoche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey, 1944-1955; director food and agriculture development, Hoffmann LaRoche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey, 1955-1961; director agricultural research, Hoffmann LaRoche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey, 1961-1968; director agrochemistry, Hoffmann LaRoche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey, 1968-1971; nutrition research coordinator, Hoffmann LaRoche Inc., Nutley, New Jersey, 1972-1979; consultant and editor, Gainesville, Florida, since 1979.

Achievements

  • Jacob Christopher Bauernfeind has been listed as a notable Food scientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Institute Food Technologists (Industrial Achievement award 1968). Member American Institute Nutrition, American Society Clinical Nutrition, American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi.

Connections

Married Lillian Rose Nurmi, July 23, 1939. Children: Kathleen, Michael, Edmund.

Father:
Edward Christopher Bauernfeind

Mother:
Nellie A. (Metzger) Bauernfeind

Spouse:
Lillian Rose Nurmi

child:
Kathleen Bauernfeind

child:
Michael Bauernfeind

child:
Edmund Bauernfeind