Raymond Adams Dutcher

Background

Dutcher, Raymond Adams was born on March 28, 1886 in Raymond, South Dakota, United States. Son of Paul and Susie (Adams) Dutcher.

Education

Bachelor of Science, South Dakot State College, 1907, Master of Science, 1910. Master of Arts, University of Missouri, 1912. Graduate study University of Illinois and University of Minnesota.

Doctor of Science, University of Puerto Rico, 1936.

Honorary Doctor of Science, South Dakota State College, 1948.

Career

Instructor South Dakot State College, 1907-1910, University of Missouri, 1910-1912, University of Illinois, 1912-1913. Assistant professor Oregon State College, 1913-1917. Assistant and associate professor agricultural biochemistry (nutrition), University of Minnesota, 1917-1921.

Head of department agricultural and biological chemistry, Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pennsylvania, since 1921.

Oberlaender fellow Carl Schurz Foundation (Germany), 1934.

Achievements

• Raymond Adams Dutcher has been listed as a noteworthy biochemist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served as captain, food and nutrition division, Sanitary corpus, United States army, Camp Meade, Maryland., 1918. Member Land Grant College Advisory Committee on Vitamin Research. Member White House Conference on Child Health and Protection.

Member Research Advisory Committee Farm Chemurgie Council, 1935.

Science consultant Field Intelligence Agency Technology (Germany), 1945. Member Food and Nutrition Board, National Research Council.

Member and counselor at large Institute of Food Technologists. Member General Board of Dairy Research.

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Member American Institute Nutrition, American Chemical Society (chairman biochemistry division), Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine American Society, Biological Chemists (chairman vitamin terminology committee), Pennsylvania Academy Science, New York Academy Science, British Biology-chemical Society, Sigma Xi, Gamma Sigma Delta, Alpha Zeta, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Alpha Chi Sigma, Theta Chi, Acacia, Phi Kappa Phi. Mason.; Clubs: Centre Hills Country (State College).

Connections

Married Mary Marguerite Wright, September 14, 1912. Children: Adams Wright, Rachel Mary.

Father:

Paul Dutcher

Mother:

Susie (Adams) Dutcher

Spouse:

Mary Marguerite Wright

child:

Adams Wright Dutcher

child:

Rachel Mary Dutcher