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The list Women food scientists includes Elsie Widdowson, Barbara McClintock, Joanne M. Holden, Zdenka Samish and Elizabeth Fleming Stier. The list consists of 24 members.
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    Elsie Widdowson
    British food scientist
    Elsie Widdowson
    Overview: Elsie Widdowson CH CBE FRS (21 October 1906 – 14 June 2000), was a British dietitian and nutritionist. She and Dr Robert McCance, a pediatrician, physiologist, biochemist, and nutritionist, were responsible ...
    Date of birth: 21 October 1906
    Date of death: 14 June 2000
    Age: 93 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century British women scientists 299T
    British women chemists 38T
    Recipients of the James Spence Medal 47T
  • 2.

    Barbara McClintock
    cytogeneticist
    Barbara McClintock
    Overview: Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992) was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany ...
    Date of birth: 16 June 1902
    Date of death: 2 September 1992
    Age: 90 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century American women scientists 967T
    Nobel laureates affiliated with Missouri 35T
    20th-century American biologists 162T
  • 3.

    Maureen Storey
    Food scientist
    Overview: Maureen Lee Storey, Ph.D., is the president and CEO of the Alliance for Potato Research and Education (APRE), founded in 2010. APRE is dedicated to expanding and translating research into science-based ...
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
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    Louise Slade
    Food scientist (1946–2021)
    Overview: Louise Slade was a food scientist known for her work on food polymer science. She was an elected fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists and of the American Association of Cereal Chemists.
    Date of death: 7 October 2021
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    Mary MacArthur
    Canadian scientist
    Overview: Mary MacArthur, was a Canadian scientist who performed research on the principles of the successful dehydration and freezing of fresh foods. She performed this research while employed by the federal g ...
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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    Ailsa A. Welch
    British academic scientist
    Overview: Professor Ailsa A. Welch is a professor of nutritional epidemiology at Norwich Medical School (part of the University of East Anglia) in the UK. Her research focuses on the impact of human nutrition on ...
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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    Jan Low
    American food scientist
    Jan Low
    Overview: Jan Low (born 1955) is an American food scientist. She is known for her work helping develop the biofortified orange-fleshed sweet potato at the CGIAR International Potato Center, for which she was a ...
    Date of birth: 1955
    Age: 69
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
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    American food scientists 103T
    Pomona College alumni 440T
    People from Denver, Colorado 809T
  • 8.

    Pamela Hardt-English
    American food scientist and computer scientist
    Overview: Pamela Hardt-English is an American food scientist and computer scientist who created Resource One, a "people's computing center" in 1972 at Project One, a "technological commune" in San Francisco, California ...
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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    Ruth Oniang'o
    Kenyan Prof of nutrition
    Ruth Oniang'o
    Overview: Ruth Khasaya Oniang’o (born November 9, 1946) is a Kenyan Professor of Nutrition and a former member of Parliament. She created Rural Outreach Africa to empower smallholders to address malnutrition, she ...
    Date of birth: 9 November 1946
    Age: 78
    Nationality: Kenyan
    Occupation: Politician
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    Carey D. Miller
    American food scientist
    Overview: Carey Dunlap Miller (1895–1985) was an American food scientist.
    Date of birth: 1895
    Date of death: 1985
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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    María Guðjónsdóttir
    Icelandic academic
    María Guðjónsdóttir
    Overview: María Guðjónsdóttir (born 1980) is a professor of food science at the University of Iceland.
    Date of birth: 1980
    Age: 44
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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  • 12.

    Ann-Sofie Sandberg
    Swedish food chemist
    Overview: Ann-Sofie Sandberg (born in 1951) is a Swedish professor in Food and Nutritional Science at Chalmers University of Technology.
    Date of birth: 1951
    Age: 73
    Occupation: Scientist
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  • 13.

    Maria Andrade (scientist)
    Cape Verde food scientist (born 1958)
    Maria Andrade (scientist)
    Overview: Maria Isabel Andrade (born 1958) is a Cape Verdean food scientist. Andrade has worked in Mozambique as a sweet potato researcher since 1996 and was a co-winner of the 2016 World Food Prize.
    Date of birth: 1958
    Age: 66
    Occupation: Scientist
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  • 14.
    Overview: Mary Elizabeth Hickox Mandels (12 September 1917 – 17 February 2008) was an early advocate for converting waste biomass to fuels and chemicals. She worked for forty years at the head of the US Army's ...
    Date of birth: 12 September 1917
    Date of death: 17 February 2008
    Age: 90 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Chemist
    Gender: Female
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  • 15.

    Zdenka Samish
    Czech-Israeli food technology researcher
    Zdenka Samish
    Overview: Zdenka Samish (Hebrew: זדנקה סמיש‎, also spelled Samisch) (March 13, 1904 – March 8, 2008) was a Czech-Israeli food technology researcher. One of the first agricultural researchers in pre-state ...
    Date of birth: 13 March 1904
    Date of death: 8 March 2008
    Age: 103 (age at death)
    Nationality: Israeli
    Occupation: Scientist
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    Israeli people of Czech-Jewish descent 45T
    Czechoslovak emigrants to Mandatory Palestine 29T
    Israeli centenarians 35T
  • 16.

    Joanne M. Holden
    American nutritionist
    Joanne M. Holden
    Overview: Joanne Merson Holden (September 5, 1946 – October 2, 2014) was an American nutritionist known for her food composition research. She served as head of the USDA Agricultural Research Service's Nutrient ...
    Date of birth: 5 September 1946
    Date of death: 2 October 2014
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century American women scientists 967T
    20th-century American scientists 1,238T
    20th-century women scientists 1,930T
  • 17.
    Overview: Elizabeth Fleming Stier was an academic and author. She was a food science professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey who became the first female award winner of IFT when she won the ...
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    American food scientists 92T
    1925 births 8,914T
    1995 deaths 6,098T
  • 18.

    Pamela Low
    Food scientist
    Overview: Pamela Low (March 16, 1928 in Manchester, New Hampshire – June 1, 2007 in New London, New Hampshire) was an American flavorist, best known for developing and creating the flavor coating for Cap'n Crunch ...
    Date of birth: 16 March 1928
    Date of death: 1 June 2007
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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  • 19.

    Hilary Stevenson
    Food scientist (1947–1994)
    Overview: Hilary Stevenson (1947-1994) was a food scientist and professor from Northern Ireland who made significant scientific contributions to the study of food irradiation in the 1980s and 1990s.
    Date of birth: 1947
    Date of death: 1994
    Age: 46 (age at death)
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    Doris Davis Centini
    Food scientist and home economist
    Overview: Doris Davis Centini (October 7, 1931 – May 13, 2001) was a food scientist and home economist who led Stouffer's Food's home economics department. She served as manager of research and development at S ...
    Date of birth: 7 October 1931
    Date of death: 13 May 2001
    Age: 69 (age at death)
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