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Amy Louise Daniels
Born(1875-07-26)July 26, 1875
Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJanuary 31, 1965(1965-01-31) (aged 89)
Alma materYale University
Scientific career
ThesisFat-transport and Metabolism, Studied with the Aid of Fat-soluble Dyes (1912)

Amy Louise Daniels (July 26, 1875 – January 31, 1965) was an American nutrition researcher at the University of Iowa who was known for her work on nutrition and health, primarily in children.

Education and career

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Daniels was born in Massachusetts on July 26, 1875.[1] She received her bachelor's degree at Columbia University in 1906.[2] In 1912 she received a PhD from Yale in biochemistry.[1][3] Daniels also studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[1] and Harvard University.[4][5]

Daniels was an assistant professor at the University of Missouri from 1911[6] to 1914.[7] In 1914 she moved to the University of Wisconsin and founded the Home Economics Department.[8] She remained there until 1918 when she moved to the University of Iowa where she would retire as full professor in 1941;[9] she worked primarily at the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station.[1]

In 1930 Daniels served as a member of the White House Conference on Child Development.[1][10] She was an early member of the American Home Economics Association and the American Institute of Nutrition.[4] In addition to her own research, Daniels encouraged one of her colleagues, Harry Steenbock, to publish his results on vitamin D so he did not get scooped by someone else.[11] Daniels died on January 31, 1965, at age 89.[12]

Research

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Daniels is known for her research on nutrition and health, primarily in children. She led research on study of nutritional needs of babies,[13] and once helped a person in India who sent her buffalo milk with the goal of making it an appropriate food for infants.[14][15] Her work in this area determined that cow's milk did not provide enough nutrients required by children.[4] She also discussed the need for exercise by children and an appropriate diet,[16] which included suggestions to limit meat consumption.[17] Daniels was interested in the type of soap needed to adequately wash clothes,[18] and linked susceptibility to colds with an insufficient amount of milk or butter in the diet that can lead to a lack vitamin A.[19][20][21]

Daniels used rats as model organisms in her research,[22] and in 1940 she collaborated with William E. Castle and Helen Dean King to work with wobbly rats, a variant so called because of their uneven movements.[23]

Honors and awards

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  • In 1937 Daniels received the first Borden Award from the American Home Economics Association for her research paper, "Relation of Ingestion of Milk to Calcium Metabolism in Children".[24] The award was given for "meritorious research on milk and milk products".[25]
  • In 1959 Daniels was named to the first edition of the Who's Who of American Women.[5]
  • During 1966 Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Nutrition, a resolution highlighting her career was read in her honor.[4]

Selected publications

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  • Daniels, Amy L.; Rich, Jean K. (1918). "The Role of Inorganic Sulfates in Nutrition". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 36 (1): 27–32. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)86416-X.
  • Daniels, Amy Louise (1914). The influence of lithum and atophan on the uric acid excretion of a gouty patient. Chicago: American Medical Association. OCLC 20327508.
  • Daniels, Amy Louise; Byfield, Albert H.; Loughlin, Rosemary (1921). Investigations in the artificial feeding of children. Iowa City: Univ. OCLC 250407715.
  • Daniels, A. L.; White, R. B. (May 1, 1930). "Influence on Development of Suckling Young of Addition of Certain Amino Acids to Diet of Mother During Lactation". Experimental Biology and Medicine. 27 (8): 761–762. doi:10.3181/00379727-27-4956. ISSN 1535-3702. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  • Daniels, Amy Louise; Byfield, Albert Henry; Marsh, Rosemary Laughlin (1969). Investigations in the artificial feeding of children. New York: Kraus Reprint Corp. OCLC 4334785.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Women Who Made a Difference". Iowa State University. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  2. ^ Alumnæ, Graduate School, Yale University, 1894-1920 (PDF). Yale University. 1920. pp. 64–65.
  3. ^ "Doctorates Conferred by American Universities". Science. 36 (918): 129–139. 1912. Bibcode:1912Sci....36..129.. doi:10.1126/science.36.918.129. ISSN 0036-8075. JSTOR 1638758. PMID 17774453.
  4. ^ a b c d "Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Nutrition". The Journal of Nutrition. 90 (1): 101–114. 1966. doi:10.1093/jn/90.1.101. ISSN 0022-3166.
  5. ^ a b "Women's Who's Who Lists Residents". Iowa City Press-Citizen. January 17, 1959. p. 5. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  6. ^ "24 professors named". The Kansas City Post. August 11, 1911. p. 4. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  7. ^ "U. of M. registrar resigns". Kansas City Journal. April 16, 1914. p. 4. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  8. ^ Apple, Rima D. (January 1, 1995), "Science Gendered: Nutrition in the United States, 1840–1940", The Science and Culture of Nutrition, 1840-1940, BRILL, pp. 129–154, doi:10.1163/9789004418417_008, ISBN 978-90-04-41841-7, retrieved June 1, 2025{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
  9. ^ "Obituary for Amy Daniels". Iowa City Press-Citizen. February 1, 1965. p. 2. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  10. ^ "House names at UI honor 3 women". Iowa City Press-Citizen. June 10, 1965. p. 3. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  11. ^ Apple, Rima D. (1989). "Patenting University Research: Harry Steenbock and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation". Isis. 80 (3): 374–394. doi:10.1086/355081. ISSN 0021-1753. JSTOR 234932.
  12. ^ "AMY LOUISE DANIELS". The New York Times. February 2, 1965. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  13. ^ "Baby feeding to receive intensive study". Leader-Tribune. April 21, 1922. p. 10. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  14. ^ "Buffalo milk formula for baby sent by American to India". The Windsor Star. June 6, 1940. p. 24. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  15. ^ "Doctor Prescribed A Buffalo's Milk; Baby Throve!". The Buffalo News. June 8, 1940. p. 61. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  16. ^ "Number here for meeting extra large". The Maryville Daily Forum. October 9, 1924. p. 1. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  17. ^ "Article clipped from The Maryville Tribune". The Maryville Tribune. May 2, 1912. p. 2. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  18. ^ "She's 'for' Soft Soap". The Maryville Tribune. May 2, 1912. p. 3. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  19. ^ "Colds caused by wrong things we eat". Finger Lakes Times. February 15, 1927. p. 7. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  20. ^ "You can't beat butter". Herndon Nonpareil. December 25, 1930. p. 5. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  21. ^ "Vitamin A best cold insurance". The Ithaca Journal. February 8, 1927. p. 7. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  22. ^ "Rats! Here's where they are needed". Quad-City Times. September 21, 1919. p. 17. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  23. ^ Castle, W. E.; King, Helen Dean; Daniels, Amy L. (1941). "Linkage Studies of the Rat (Rattus norvegicus) IV". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 27 (6): 250–254. Bibcode:1941PNAS...27..250C. doi:10.1073/pnas.27.6.250. ISSN 0027-8424. JSTOR 87327. PMC 1078316. PMID 16588453.
  24. ^ "Eleven of Borden Awards Have Been Won in Wisconsin". Beaver Dam Daily Citizen. April 4, 1944. p. 4. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  25. ^ "News". Pi Lambda Theta Journal. 17 (1): 20–24. 1938. ISSN 2374-3093. JSTOR 42915397.
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