Background
Emerson, Gladys Anderson was born on July 1, 1903 in Caldwell, Kansas, United States. Daughter of Otis Anderson and Louise (Williams) Anderson. Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, University Science and Arts Oklahoma, 1925.
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Emerson, Gladys Anderson was born on July 1, 1903 in Caldwell, Kansas, United States. Daughter of Otis Anderson and Louise (Williams) Anderson. Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, University Science and Arts Oklahoma, 1925.
She attended grade school in Fort Worth, Texas and high school in El Reno, Oklahoma. She received her Bachelor of Science (Bachelor of Science) degree in Chemistry and Physics and her Artium Baccalaureatus (Bachelor of Arts) degree in English from the Oklahoma College for Women. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy in animal nutrition and biochemistry at Berkeley in 1932.
Teaching assistant U. Science and Arts, Oklahoma, 1923-1925. Assistant Stanford, 1925-1926. Research associate Institute Experimental Biology, University of California at Berkeley, 1933-1942.
Visiting lecturer pharmacology medical school University of California at San Francisco, 1945.
Research associate Sloan-Kettering Institute Cancer Research, 1950-1953. Head department, animal nutrition Merck Institute Therapeutic Research, Rahway, New Jersey, 1942-1956.
Director nutrition Merck, Sharp & Dohme Research laboratories, 1956-1957. Marie Curie lecturer Pennsylvania State University, 1951.
Research lecturer Iowa State University, 1952.
Professor, department chairman home economics University of California at Los Angeles, 1957-1961, professor nutrition, 1961-1970, professor emeritus, from 1970. Head division nutrition School Public Health, 1961-1969. Visiting lecturer biochemistry and nutrition U. Nebraska, 1958.
Lecturer universities, science and professional societies, Japan, 1964, 65, 67, 70, 75.
Engaged in research Office of Scientific Research and Development, 1943-1945. Member liaison and science advisory board Question Manager Food and Container Institute, 1949-1950.
Food and nutrition research committee National Research Council, 1952. Member Food and Nutrition Board, 1959-1964, member committee dietary allowances, 1960-1964.
Executive council American Board Nutrition, 1959-1968.
Panelist Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute industrial council, 1955. Member United States national committee International Union Nutrition Scientists, 1958-1962. Organizing committee 5th International Congress Nutrition, 1961.
Vice chairman panel on new foods White House Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health, 1969.
Delegate conferences in field Instructor trainees Peace Corps, 1962, 63, 64.
Member State Nutrition Committee, 1966-1969. Member California Nutrition Council, since 1971, Southern California Committee on Food and Nutrition, from 1973. Member science board Meals for Millions, 1970-1979, honorary trustee, since 1979.
Member Southern California committee ONA-United States of America, 1974-1976.
Member of the board Southern California Friends Soochow University, since 1970. Member Los Angeles Interagy.
Disaster Committee, 1976. Fellow American Institute Chemists, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy Sciences, American Public Health Association, American Institute Nutrition (councillor 1952-1955, chairman.
Membership committee 1964, fellows committee 1975-1978, history of nutrition committee 1976-1978).
Member American Chemical Society (chairman women's service committee 1953-1958), American Society Biological Chemists, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Gordon Research Conference (chairman vitamins and metabolism 1952, vice chairman 1951), Pan American Medical Association (nutrition council 1959-1960), United Nations Association Southern California (member of council from 1974, vice president community relations and education 1976-1978), Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Town Hall of California, Sigma Xi, Delta Omega (national president 1951), Sigma Delta Epsilon, Iota Sigma Pi (national vice president 1945, national president 1951-1957, national honorary. Member). Company-isolator Vitamin East, 1936.