Benjamin R. Jacobs
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Benjamin R. Jacobs | |
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Lima, Peru | |
Died | February 3, 1963 , U.S. | (aged 83)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Biochemist |
Known for | Research on nutrition, development of enriched grains |
Benjamin Ricardo Jacobs (March 15, 1879 – February 3, 1963) was born at the American Consulate in
When the
Education and major contributions
He obtained his
Professional career
Before Jacobs was twenty-seven years old, he had established a successful scientific laboratory in San Francisco and was conducting his own research, when on April 18, 1906, his laboratory was destroyed during the
Relocating to Washington, D.C., Benjamin R. Jacobs joined the federal agency, the
During this time with the government he also participated in the Distribution Division of the United States Food Administration, which was formed to deal with daunting issues regarding food distribution during World War I. He participated for a great portion of the time of the existence of the division, through to the withdrawal of the principal license regulations. He traveled the country and into Canada as an investigator for Herbert C. Hoover's Federal Food Administration.
In 1917 a federal war-time food control act was passed when crop failures in Europe laid the burden of feeding the populations of both continents, the British Isles, and the armies of the allies—upon the United States. This effort intervened in the supply and demand process that always had functioned in the marketplace for food, both in the supply process and in the profits taken, to assure that both civilians and the armed forces had enough food to survive the famine that was threatening to develop, even establishing a rationing system and the control of prices.
Two draft registration cards for him are presented on ancestry.com,[1] where he lists his name as Benjamin Richard Jacobs. The first is dated September 12, 1918 for World War I and the second is for World War II, but it bears no date.
Among the personal notes about members of what is now the American Chemical Society, in the November 1920 issue of the
Benjamin R. Jacobs was a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, who often presented reports about his research before their members in national and regional meetings and he was a frequent contributor to their scientific journals, Science and the Journal of the American Chemical Society. His research also was reported in other scientific publications of the day, such as the American Food Journal, and he served as the president of the National Noodle and Macaroni Association of America.
Personal information
His daughters, Irene (born 1905) and Millicent (born 1907), were born to his first wife, Sarah, who died when the children were young. After raising his daughters as a single father, he married Margaret Ann Connell of Washington, D.C., who was assistant to
At the age of eighty-three, Jacobs died in Orlando, Florida. Following services at Gawler's Funeral Home in Washington, D.C., he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery and was honored as a veteran with his rank being identified as, captain. His wife, Margaret Connell Jacobs, was buried with him a decade later in 1973, also dying at the age of eighty-three.
See also
References
- "Graham Flour: a Study of the Physical and Chemical Differences Between Graham Flour and Imitation Graham Flours." by Joseph Arthur LeClerc and Benjamin R. Jacobs. United States Bureau of Chemistry Bulletin 164. Washington: G P O, 1913.
- Food and the War: A Textbook for College, United States Food Administration. Collegiate, Part I, K. Blunt and F. Powdermaker, Food and the war; Part II, E. C. Sprague, A laboratory manual of food selection, preparation, and conservation, 1918
- War Time Control of Distribution of Foods, Albert N. Merritt, Ph.D., member of the staff of the United States Food Administration, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1920
- Personal Notes, Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, volume 12, number 11, page 1137, November, 1920
- The Determination of Carbon Dioxide in Self-rising Flour, Benjamin R. Jacobs, Ph.D., Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 14, issue 5, p. 419, 1922
- Self-rising Flour, What is it?, Benjamin R. Jacobs, Ph.D., American Food Journal, volume 17, number 5, New York : May, 1922
- General Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Charles L. Parsons, Science, New Series, volume 56, number 1436, pp. 21–30, July 1922
- Announcements, Science, New Series, volume 139, number 3557, pp. 818–819, March 1963
- Memoirs, Marie Connell, Washington, D.C., 2006
External links
External links
- Media related to Benjamin R. Jacobs at Wikimedia Commons