Pauline Beery Mack

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Pauline Beery Mack

Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (born December 19, 1891 in Norborne , Missouri , † October 22, 1974 in Denton , Texas ) was an American chemist and nutritionist .

Life

Pauline Beery Mack was the daughter of John Beery and Dora Woodford Beery. Her parents ran a general store in Norborne, Missouri, where she also attended public school. After graduating from high school in 1910, she went to Missouri State University . Here she studied chemistry with a minor in biology; Bachelor in 1913. During the next six years she worked as a high school chemistry teacher and made her master's degree at Columbia University in New York City , which she graduated in 1919 - mainly during the summer holidays . She then got a job as a lecturer in chemistry at the Home Economics Department at Pennsylvania State University , but during her thirty years of teaching at the university also taught freshmen at the chemistry faculty, where she received her doctorate in 1932 with a thesis on the chemistry of calcium in vertebrate bones .

Her outstanding research at Penn State includes Pennsylvania Mass Studies in Human Nutrition . In this study, which began in 1935, 100 families of different social classes from rural and urban regions were observed over a period of 15 years, and the bone growth of the children and the mineral content of the bones of all family members were analyzed and compared with eating habits. In 1940, initiated by her research, the Ellen H. Richards Institute was founded, with a focus on the chemistry of food, nutrition and clothing, of which she was first director until 1952.

In 1952 she went to Texas Woman's University , where she was Dean of the College of Household Arts and Sciences until her retirement in 1962 . She then became director of the research institute and carried out studies for NASA on the effects of weightlessness on bone density . For this purpose, the mineral content of the bones of male test subjects who had been lying for longer periods of time was examined using an X-ray method that she had developed . She developed special diets for astronauts that counteracted demineralization, and in 1970 she received the Silver Snoopy Award for her special services to manned space travel .

Pauline Beery Mack was married to the plant physiologist Warren Bryan Mack , Professor of Horticulture and Head of the Department of Horticulture at Pennsylvania State University , since 1923 . Warren B. Mack also did wood engravings in his spare time and was a recognized artist on the National Academy of Design . Pauline Beery Mack had no children and her husband died in 1952.

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  1. ^ A b c Elizabeth H. Oakes: Encyclopedia of World Scientists. Revised Edition, Facts On File, 2007, p. 474 f.
  2. ↑ a b Marilyn Ogilvie, Joy Harvey (Ed.): The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. Volume 2, Routledge, 2000, pp. 822-824.
  3. ↑ Winnifred Gail Younkin: The Intersection of Discipline and Roles: Dr. Pauline Mack's Story as an Instrumental Case Study with Implications for Leadership in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Dissertation, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2009, p. 266 f.
  4. ↑ According to The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science (2000, p. 822), she had two children, but this is denied by EH Oakes (2007, p. 475) and WG Younkin (2009, p. 144).
  5. ^ Warren Bryan Mack: 1896-1952. College of Agricultural Sciences, Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
  6. ↑ Winnifred Gail Younkin: The Intersection of Discipline and Roles: Dr. Pauline Mack's Story as an Instrumental Case Study with Implications for Leadership in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Dissertation, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2009, pp. 139-144, 216.
  7. ^ Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania, 1949-2008. ( September 25, 2016 memento on the Internet Archive ) Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Retrieved July 20, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Mack, Pauline Beery
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mack, Pauline Gracia Beery
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist and nutritionist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Norborne , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1974
Place of death Denton , Texas