author
Henry A. Sherman
b. 1870
A pioneering American food chemist and nutrition scientist, he helped turn the study of diet and vitamins into a more exact science. His work at Columbia University shaped early understanding of human nutrition and the chemistry of food.
1 Audiobook
The Children's Bible
by Henry A. Sherman, Charles Foster Kent
About the author
Born on October 16, 1875, Henry Clapp Sherman was an American chemist and nutritionist best known for bringing careful laboratory methods to the study of food and health. He spent much of his career at Columbia University, where he became a professor of chemistry and carried out influential research on proteins, enzymes, minerals, and vitamins.
Sherman wrote widely on nutrition and helped make the subject accessible to both scientists and general readers. His work is especially associated with the growing early-20th-century understanding of dietary requirements and the role of vitamins in human health.
He died on October 7, 1955. Although the query notes a birth year of 1870, the biographical sources I found identify his birth date as October 16, 1875.