Roger John Williams

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Roger John Williams (born August 14, 1893 in Oatacamund , India , † February 20, 1988 in Austin ) was an American biochemist.

Life

Williams was born to missionaries in India, but returned to the United States when he was two and grew up in Kansas and California. In 1919 he received his doctorate magna cum laude from the University of Chicago . In 1920 he became an assistant professor at the University of Oregon , where he received a full professorship in 1928. In 1932 he became a professor at Oregon State College and in 1940 at the University of Texas at Austin . From 1971 to 1986 he was Professor Emeritus there. 1940 to 1963 he was the founding director of the Clayton Foundation Biochemical Institute (now the Biochemical Institute).

In 1938 he isolated the vitamin pantothenic acid , the existence of which he suspected since 1920 after investigations on yeast cells. In 1941 he isolated folic acid , which he named. After retiring, he wrote numerous books on nutrition.

Williams was a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1946 and was President of the American Chemical Society in 1957 . He received honorary degrees from Columbia University, Oregon State University, and the University of Redlands. In 1941 he received the Mead Johnson Award from the American Institute of Nutrition for his discovery of pantothenic acid, for which he also received the Chandler Medal from Columbia University.

In 1916 he married Hazel Elizabeth Wood, with whom he had three children, and after her death in 1952 Mabel Phyllis Hobson. He was the brother of the chemist Robert R. Williams .

Fonts

  • The Human Frontier, Harcourt Brace, 1946
  • with others: The Biochemistry of B vitamins, Reinhold Pub. Corp., 1950
  • Biochemical Individuality: The Basis for the Genetotrophic Concept, John Wiley & Sons, 1956; University of Texas Press, 1969, 1979, Keats Publishing, 1998
  • Free and Unequal: The Biological Basis of Individual Liberty, Univ. of Texas Press, 1953
  • Alcoholism: The Nutritional Approach, Univ. of Texas Press, 1959, 1978
  • Nutrition in a Nutshell, Doubleday 1962,
  • Nutrition Against Disease: Environmental Prevention, Pitman 1971, Bantam Books, 1973
  • Physicians' Handbook of Nutritional Science, CC Thomas, 1975
  • The Wonderful World Within You: Your Inner Nutritional Environment, Bantam Books, 1977
  • The Prevention of Alcoholism Through Nutrition, Bantam Books, 1981
  • Rethinking Education: The Coming Age of Enlightenment, Philosophical Library, 1986

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SURNAME Williams, Roger John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Oatacamund , India
DATE OF DEATH 20th of February 1988
Place of death Austin