William Cumming Rose

William Cumming Rose (April 4, 1887 – September 25, 1985) was an American nutritionist whose research in the 1930s discovered the essential amino acid threonine.

He graduated with a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1911. Rose served in several academic posts before accepting a position at the University of Texas Galveston Medical School to organize a department of biochemistry. In 1922, he went to the University of Illinois as professor of physiological chemistry, a title which was changed to professor of biochemistry in 1936. From 1922 to 1955 he transformed his department into a center of excellence for the training of biochemists.^[1] He retired from the University of Illinois in 1955.

Awards and honors

• 1936 - Became a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
• 1939 to 1941 - President of the American Society of Biological Chemists
• 1945 to 1946 - President of the American Institute of Nutrition
• 1949 - Osborne and Mendel Award of the American Institute of Nutrition
• 1952 - Honorary Doctor of Sciences Degree from the University of Illinois^[2]
• 1952 - Willard Gibbs Medal of the American Chemical Society
• 1957 - Charles F. Spencer Medal of the American Chemical Society
• 1961 - Twentieth Anniversary Award of the Nutrition Foundation
• 1966 - Received National Medal of Science

External links

• Biographical Memoirs
• William Cumming Rose and Amino Acids (1887-1985)
• William C. Rose Papers, University of Illinois Archives

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