Agnes Fay Morgan

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Agnes Fay Morgan (born May 4, 1884 in Peoria , Illinois , † July 20, 1968 in Berkeley , California ) was an American chemist and nutritionist .

Life

Agnes Fay Morgan was the third of four children of Patrick John Fay and Mary Dooly Fay, both emigrants from Galway , Ireland . She studied at Vassar College and later at the University of Chicago , where she made her master's degree in chemistry in 1905 . She then taught chemistry for a few years at Simmons College (1905-1906), at the University of Montana (1907-1908) and at the University of Washington (1910-1912). She then returned to the University of Chicago, where in 1914 at Julius Stieglitz with work I. The molecular rearrangement of some triarylchloroamines. II. The viscosities of various methyl and ethyl imido benzoate salts and of para and meta nitro-benzoyl chloramides in moderately Concentrated Aqueous solutions doctorate .

In 1915 she went to California to the University of California, Berkeley , where she became an assistant professor at the Institute of Nutrition . In 1918 she became head and in 1923 professor of the new department for Household Science , in 1938 she was spun off as Home Economics at the College of Agriculture , where she worked until her retirement in 1954. Her research focused on analyzing the effects of vitamins and their content in food, as well as the effects of storage and preparation. She showed that a lack of certain vitamins, like an overdose of vitamin D , can lead to health problems. She also examined the effects of vitamins on the hormonal balance . In her institute she also endeavored to put her specialist field of home economics on scientific ground and to overcome the image of exclusive training to become good wives and mothers through appropriate teaching content and research. Only six years after their retirement was her former department at the University of Nutritional Sciences (Nutritional Sciences) renamed.

Agnes Fay Morgan married Arthur I. Morgan in 1908, with whom she had a son.

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Maresi Nerad: The Academic Kitchen: A Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California, Berkeley. State University of New York, Albany 1999, ISBN 978-0791439692 , pp. 73-88.
  • Elizabeth H. Oakes: Encyclopedia of World Scientists. Revised Edition, Infobase, 2007, ISBN 978-1438118826 , p. 522 f.
  • Ruth Okey, Barbara Kennedy, Johnson Gordon Mackinney: Agnes Fay Morgan, Home Economics: Berkeley. In: In Memoriam. University of California, Academic Senate, 1969, pp. 78-81 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Elizabeth H. Oakes: Encyclopedia of World Scientists. Revised Edition, Infobase, 2007, p. 522 f.
  2. ^ A b c R. Okey, B. Kennedy, JG Mackinney: Agnes Fay Morgan, Home Economics: Berkeley. In: In Memoriam. Univ. of California, 1969, pp. 78-81.
  3. ^ William Albert Noyes: Biographical Memoir of Julius Stieglitz. In: Biographical Memoirs, Vol. XXI. National Academy of Sciences, 1939, pp. 273-314, here p. 305.
  4. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Agnes Fay Morgan at academictree.org, accessed on January 3 of 2019.
  5. ^ Margaret W. Rossiter: The Men Move In: Home Economics, 1950-1970. In: Sarah Stage, Virginia Bramble Vincenti (Ed.): Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession. Cornell Univ. Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0801481758 , pp. 96-117, here p. 103.
  6. ^ Maresi Nerad: The Academic Kitchen: A Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California, Berkeley. State Univ. of New York, 1999, pp. 73-88.
personal data
SURNAME Morgan, Agnes Fay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist and nutritionist
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Peoria , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 1968
Place of death Berkeley , California