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Lafayette Mendel
Born(1872-02-05)February 5, 1872
Delhi, New York, United States
DiedDecember 9, 1935(1935-12-09) (aged 63)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University
AwardsMember of National Academy of Sciences
American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (1927)
Conné Medal from Chemist's Club of New York
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemist
InstitutionsYale University
Doctoral advisorRussell Henry Chittenden
Doctoral studentsIcie Macy Hoobler
Florence B. Seibert
Helen B. Thompson

Lafayette Benedict Mendel (February 5, 1872 – December 9, 1935) was an American biochemist known for his work in nutrition, with longtime collaborator Thomas B. Osborne, including the study of Vitamin A, Vitamin B, lysine and tryptophan.

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Lafayette Benedict Mendel (February 5, 1872 – December 9, 1935) was an American biochemist known for his work in nutrition, with longtime collaborator...

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Agricultural Experiment Station. Then, working with[clarification needed] Lafayette Mendel and applying Liebig's law of the minimum, which states that growth...

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cod liver oil. Their work confirmed that of Thomas Burr Osborne and Lafayette Mendel, at Yale, also in 1913, which suggested a fat-soluble nutrient in butterfat...

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Vitamin A

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McCollum and Marguerite Davis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Lafayette Mendel and Thomas Burr Osborne at Yale University. McCollum and Davis ultimately...

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Soy protein

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efficiency ratio (PER) method, first proposed by Thomas Burr Osborne and Lafayette Mendel in 1917, was the most widely used method until 1990. This method was...

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Soybean

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definitely in 1895 at Ontario Agricultural College. It was not until Lafayette Mendel and Thomas Burr Osborne showed that the nutritional value of soybean...

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prolamins: 'glutenin' and 'gliadin'. Osborne and his Yale colleague Lafayette Mendel are considered the 'founders' of the modern science of nutrition. Earlier...

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nutritive requirements of rats were used by Thomas Burr Osborne and Lafayette Mendel to determine the details of protein nutrition. The reproductive function...

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(1951–1978): Sterling Professor of Psychiatry, researcher of schizophrenia Lafayette Mendel (1921–1935): biochemist, discoverer of Vitamin A, Vitamin B and essential...

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their relative value in nutrition. Osborne then joined forces with Lafayette Mendel at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station to determine the...

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1913 in science

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McCollum and Marguerite Davis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Lafayette Mendel and Thomas Burr Osborne at Yale University independently discover Vitamin...

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William Cumming Rose

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Yale University studying food chemistry with Russell Chittenden and Lafayette Mendel. He was granted a PhD in 1911. Rose taught for a time at University...

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Helen Parsons

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Around 1927, Parsons went to obtain her Ph.D. under the direction of Lafayette Mendel, a biochemical nutritionist working out of the Yale Physiological Chemistry...

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Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Grant MacCurdy, anthropologist Ronald Mallett, theoretical physicist Lafayette Mendel, nutritionist Hubert Anson Newton, astronomer and mathematician Alexander...

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Sterling Professor

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later that year by school administrator Frank E. Spaulding, biochemist Lafayette Mendel, and astronomer Ernest William Brown. By the mid-1920s, the endowment...

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Russell Henry Chittenden

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Institutions Yale University Columbia University United States National Research Council Doctoral advisor Wilhelm Kühne Doctoral students Lafayette Mendel...

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Human nutrition

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and named vitamin C as the then-unknown substance preventing scurvy. Lafayette Mendel (1872-1935) and Thomas Osborne (1859–1929) also performed pioneering...

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List of multiple discoveries

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and Marguerite Davis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and by Lafayette Mendel and Thomas Burr Osborne at Yale University, who studied the role of...

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George Whipple

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and Lafayette Mendel during his senior year at Yale left an indelible mark on his life and career. In his autobiography, Whipple describes Mendel as "an...

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Physiological Reviews

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cadre of editors at the journal's inception were William Henry Howell, Lafayette Mendel, and John Macleod. From 1932 to 1950, the chairman of the board of...

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Mary Swartz Rose

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went to Yale University, where she received her PhD (studying under Lafayette Mendel) in Physiological Chemistry in 1909. After her graduation from Yale...

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Timeline of United States discoveries

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discovered by Elmer McCollum at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Lafayette Mendel and Thomas Osborne at Yale University. 1923 Oviraptor Oviraptor is...

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Professor of Machine Design and Descriptive Geometry and author. Lafayette Mendel, biochemist Mansfield Merriman (1848–1925), civil engineering; author...

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