Stephen Moulton Babcock
Memorial plaque for Stephen Moulton Babcock at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created in 1934 by Lorado Taft
Stephen Moulton Babcock (born October 22, 1843 in Bridgewater, Oneida County , New York, † July 2, 1931 in Madison , Wisconsin ) was an American agricultural chemist.
Babcock studied at Tufts College, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Cornell University . At the University of Göttingen he received his doctorate in organic chemistry in 1879. In 1881 he became an agricultural chemist at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York.
In 1887 he became head of the department of agricultural chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural Experiment Station (UWAES).
In 1890 he developed a test to determine the fat content of milk (Babcock test).
literature
- Edwin B. Hart : Stephen Moulton Babcock: (October 22, 1843 - July 2, 1931) . In: The Journal of Nutrition . Volume 37, 1949, pp. 1-7.
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| SURNAME | Babcock, Stephen Moulton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American agricultural chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | at Bridgewater, Oneida County , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2, 1931 |
| Place of death | Madison , Wisconsin |