Amy Louise Daniels

Amy Louise Daniels
Born(1875-07-26)July 26, 1875
Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJanuary 31, 1965(1965-01-31) (aged 89)
Alma materYale University
Scientific career
ThesisFat-transport and Metabolism, Studied with the Aid of Fat-soluble Dyes (1912)

Amy Louise Daniels (July 26, 1875 – January 31, 1965) was an American nutrition researcher at the University of Iowa who was known for her work on nutrition and health, primarily in children.

Education and career

Daniels was born in Massachusetts on July 26, 1875.[1] She received her bachelor's degree at Columbia University in 1906.[2] In 1912 she received a PhD from Yale in biochemistry.[1][3] Daniels also studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[1] and Harvard University.[4][5]

Daniels was an assistant professor at the University of Missouri from 1911[6] to 1914.[7] In 1914 she moved to the University of Wisconsin and founded the Home Economics Department.[8] She remained there until 1918 when she moved to the University of Iowa where she would retire as full professor in 1941;[9] she worked primarily at the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station.[1]

In 1930 Daniels served as a member of the White House Conference on Child Development.[1][10] She was an early member of the American Home Economics Association and the American Institute of Nutrition.[4] In addition to her own research, Daniels encouraged one of her colleagues, Harry Steenbock, to publish his results on vitamin D so he did not get scooped by someone else.[11] Daniels died on January 31, 1965, at age 89.[12]

Research

Daniels is known for her research on nutrition and health, primarily in children. She led research on study of nutritional needs of babies,[13] and once helped a person in India who sent her buffalo milk with the goal of making it an appropriate food for infants.[14][15] Her work in this area determined that cow's milk did not provide enough nutrients required by children.[4] She also discussed the need for exercise by children and an appropriate diet,[16] which included suggestions to limit meat consumption.[17] Daniels was interested in the type of soap needed to adequately wash clothes,[18] and linked susceptibility to colds with an insufficient amount of milk or butter in the diet that can lead to a lack vitamin A.[19][20][21]

Daniels used rats as model organisms in her research,[22] and in 1940 she collaborated with William E. Castle and Helen Dean King to work with wobbly rats, a variant so called because of their uneven movements.[23]

Honors and awards

  • In 1937 Daniels received the first Borden Award from the American Home Economics Association for her research paper, "Relation of Ingestion of Milk to Calcium Metabolism in Children".[24] The award was given for "meritorious research on milk and milk products".[25]
  • In 1959 Daniels was named to the first edition of the Who's Who of American Women.[5]
  • During 1966 Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Nutrition, a resolution highlighting her career was read in her honor.[4]

Selected publications

  • Daniels, Amy L.; Rich, Jean K. (1918). "The Role of Inorganic Sulfates in Nutrition". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 36 (1): 27–32. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)86416-X.
  • Daniels, Amy Louise (1914). The influence of lithum and atophan on the uric acid excretion of a gouty patient. Chicago: American Medical Association. OCLC 20327508.
  • Daniels, Amy Louise; Byfield, Albert H.; Loughlin, Rosemary (1921). Investigations in the artificial feeding of children. Iowa City: Univ. OCLC 250407715.
  • Daniels, A. L.; White, R. B. (May 1, 1930). "Influence on Development of Suckling Young of Addition of Certain Amino Acids to Diet of Mother During Lactation". Experimental Biology and Medicine. 27 (8): 761–762. doi:10.3181/00379727-27-4956. ISSN 1535-3702. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  • Daniels, Amy Louise; Byfield, Albert Henry; Marsh, Rosemary Laughlin (1969). Investigations in the artificial feeding of children. New York: Kraus Reprint Corp. OCLC 4334785.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Women Who Made a Difference". Iowa State University. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  2. ^ Alumnæ, Graduate School, Yale University, 1894-1920 (PDF). Yale University. 1920. pp. 64–65.
  3. ^ "Doctorates Conferred by American Universities". Science. 36 (918): 129–139. 1912. Bibcode:1912Sci....36..129.. doi:10.1126/science.36.918.129. ISSN 0036-8075. JSTOR 1638758. PMID 17774453.
  4. ^ a b c d "Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Nutrition". The Journal of Nutrition. 90 (1): 101–114. 1966. doi:10.1093/jn/90.1.101. ISSN 0022-3166.
  5. ^ a b "Women's Who's Who Lists Residents". Iowa City Press-Citizen. January 17, 1959. p. 5. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  6. ^ "24 professors named". The Kansas City Post. August 11, 1911. p. 4. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  7. ^ "U. of M. registrar resigns". Kansas City Journal. April 16, 1914. p. 4. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  8. ^ Apple, Rima D. (January 1, 1995), "Science Gendered: Nutrition in the United States, 1840–1940", The Science and Culture of Nutrition, 1840-1940, BRILL, pp. 129–154, doi:10.1163/9789004418417_008, ISBN 978-90-04-41841-7, retrieved June 1, 2025{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
  9. ^ "Obituary for Amy Daniels". Iowa City Press-Citizen. February 1, 1965. p. 2. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  10. ^ "House names at UI honor 3 women". Iowa City Press-Citizen. June 10, 1965. p. 3. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  11. ^ Apple, Rima D. (1989). "Patenting University Research: Harry Steenbock and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation". Isis. 80 (3): 374–394. doi:10.1086/355081. ISSN 0021-1753. JSTOR 234932.
  12. ^ "AMY LOUISE DANIELS". The New York Times. February 2, 1965. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  13. ^ "Baby feeding to receive intensive study". Leader-Tribune. April 21, 1922. p. 10. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  14. ^ "Buffalo milk formula for baby sent by American to India". The Windsor Star. June 6, 1940. p. 24. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  15. ^ "Doctor Prescribed A Buffalo's Milk; Baby Throve!". The Buffalo News. June 8, 1940. p. 61. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  16. ^ "Number here for meeting extra large". The Maryville Daily Forum. October 9, 1924. p. 1. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  17. ^ "Article clipped from The Maryville Tribune". The Maryville Tribune. May 2, 1912. p. 2. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  18. ^ "She's 'for' Soft Soap". The Maryville Tribune. May 2, 1912. p. 3. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  19. ^ "Colds caused by wrong things we eat". Finger Lakes Times. February 15, 1927. p. 7. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  20. ^ "You can't beat butter". Herndon Nonpareil. December 25, 1930. p. 5. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  21. ^ "Vitamin A best cold insurance". The Ithaca Journal. February 8, 1927. p. 7. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  22. ^ "Rats! Here's where they are needed". Quad-City Times. September 21, 1919. p. 17. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  23. ^ Castle, W. E.; King, Helen Dean; Daniels, Amy L. (1941). "Linkage Studies of the Rat (Rattus norvegicus) IV". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 27 (6): 250–254. Bibcode:1941PNAS...27..250C. doi:10.1073/pnas.27.6.250. ISSN 0027-8424. JSTOR 87327. PMC 1078316. PMID 16588453.
  24. ^ "Eleven of Borden Awards Have Been Won in Wisconsin". Beaver Dam Daily Citizen. April 4, 1944. p. 4. Retrieved June 1, 2025.
  25. ^ "News". Pi Lambda Theta Journal. 17 (1): 20–24. 1938. ISSN 2374-3093. JSTOR 42915397.
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