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Toxicological Sciences 67, 157-158 (2002)
Copyright © 2002 by the Society of Toxicology

PROFILES IN TOXICOLOGY

Harvey W. Wiley

Dale A. Stirling

INTERTOX, 2819 Elliott Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98121

Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, an early pioneer of food chemistry, food toxicology, and food safety, was born near Kent, Indiana in 1844. He received an undergraduate degree in 1867 from Hanover College and an M.D. from Indiana Medical College in 1871. Shortly thereafter, Wiley accepted a position teaching chemistry at Indiana Medical College. He obtained a B.S. from Harvard in 1873 and then, in 1874, accepted a faculty position in chemistry at Purdue University. In 1878, Wiley worked in Germany at the Imperial Food Laboratory in Bismarck and was even elected to the prestigious German Chemical Society. He became proficient at operating the "polariscope" and studying sugar chemistry. With that knowledge he spent his last years at Purdue studying sorghum culture and sugar chemistry, focusing on the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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