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Wilbur Olin Atwater

American agricultural chemist (1844–1907); developer of the respiration calorimeter

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17 works

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    A digest of metabolism experiments in which the balance of income and outgo was determined / by W.O. Atwater and C.F. Langworthy.

    Wilbur Olin Atwater | Date: 1898
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    Experiments on the metabolism of matter and energy in the human body, 1898-1900 / by W.O. Atwater and F.G. Benedict ; with the cooperation of A.P. Bryant and A.W. Smith and J.F. Snell.

    Wilbur Olin Atwater | Date: 1902
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    Physiological aspects of the liquor problem / investigations made by and under the direction of W. O. Atwater, John S. Billings [and others] sub-committee of the Committee of fifty to investigate the liquor problem.

    John Shaw Billings | Date: 1903
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    Experiments on the metabolism of matter & energy in the human body. 1900-1902 / by W.O. Atwater and F.G. Benedict.

    Wilbur Olin Atwater | Date: 1903
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    The chemical composition of American food materials / by W.O. Atwater and Chas. D. Woods.

    Wilbur Olin Atwater | Date: [1896]
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Frequent collaborators

Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library, Columbia University
Francis Gano Benedict
Woods, Charles D.

Related topics

Metabolism
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Nutrition
Food Analysis

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