Atwater: a personal tribute from the United Kingdom.
@article{Widdowson1987AtwaterAP, title={Atwater: a personal tribute from the United Kingdom.}, author={ElsieM. Widdowson}, journal={The American journal of clinical nutrition}, year={1987}, volume={45 5}, pages={ 898-904 } }
When Dr Nelson telephoned me and invited me to give the 1986 Atwater lecture, he told me, by way of persuading me, that I could talk about anything I liked. I replied that if I was giving a lecture in honor of Atwater, Atwater should be the cornerstone of it, and that is how it is going to be. More than 30 years ago I wrote “I think I can safely say that Atwater contributed more to our knowledge about the energy value of human foods than anyone who has ever lived, either before or since his…
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