Russell H(enry) Chittenden

Biochemist and educator, born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. As a senior at Yale (1874), he created the first American course in physiological chemistry (later known as biochemistry), and brought the university's Sheffield Scientific School into prominence as its director (1898–1922), while concurrently lecturing at Columbia University (1898–1903). He made pioneering studies in the enzymatic digestion of proteins and starch, and isolated glycogen (‘animal starch’) in 1875. He began his advocacy of a low-protein diet for humans in 1907 and investigated the toxicology of human alcohol and chemical addiction (1903–15). After his retirement he wrote histories of biochemistry and the Sheffield School.

D, LL.D (February 18, 1856–1943) was an American physiological chemist. in 1856, graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale in 1875, studied in Heidelberg in 1878-79, and received his doctor's degree at Yale in 1880.

He became professor of physiological chemistry at Yale in 1882; from 1898 to 1903 he was lecturer on physiological chemistry at Columbia University, New York.

He was the author of Digestive Proteolysis and Physiological Economy in Nutrition (New York, 1905). During World War I, Professor Chittenden was a member of the Advisory Committee on Food Utilization and also a member of the Executive Committee of the National Research Council.