Background
Griffith, Wendell Horace was born on November 7, 1895 in Churdan, Iowa, United States. Son of George William and May Elizabeth (Fowler) Griffith.
Griffith, Wendell Horace was born on November 7, 1895 in Churdan, Iowa, United States. Son of George William and May Elizabeth (Fowler) Griffith.
Bachelor of Science, Greenville (Illinois) College, 1917. Master of Science, University of Illinois, 1919, Doctor of Philosophy, 1923.
1 son, Wendell Horace. Instructor, Cooper College, Sterling, Kansas, 1919-1920, University of Michigan, 1922-1923. Department of biological chemistry, Saint Saint Louis University, 1923-1948, professor, 1940-1948.
Chairman, professor department biochemistry and nutrition, University Texas Medical School, 1948-1951.
Chairman, professor department physiological chemistry University of California, 1951-1963, professor emeritus, 1963-1968. General Education Board fellow, Oxford England, 1936-1937.
Military leave absence, 1941-1945. Leave absence as Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations) nutrition advisor in India, 1959-1960, as director Life Sciences Research Office, Federation American Societies for Experimental Biology, 1962-1968.
Consultant Office Surgeon General, Army, 1946-1968.
Consultant Office Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service, 1949-1953, 55-68.
Member Food and Nutrition board, National Research Council, 1950-1961. Served with United States of America, 1918-1919. Fellow American Public Health Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy Science.
Member American Society Biological Chemists, American Institute Nutrition (president 1950-1951), American Chemical Society, Society for Experimental Biological and Medicine.
American Medical Association (council on Foods and Nutrition, 1953-1959), Institute Food Technologists, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Lambda Upsilon. Club: Cosmos, Assistant editor: Nutrition Reviews, 1946-1950, editorial committee, 1952-1968.
Married Harriet Isabel Leas, August 31, 1922.