Jesse Francis McClendon
American scientist
Died when: 95 years 337 days (1151 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Jesse Francis McClendon (December 21, 1880 – November 22, 1976) was an American chemist, zoologist, and physiologist known for the first pH measurement of human stomach in situ.
Jesse F.McClendon made substantial contributions in a variety of fields, including invertebrate zoology, nutrition, life processes of cell membranes, the importance of pH control, the role of iodine in human health, and specifically its relation to prevention of goiters.
In the early 1930s Jesse F.McClendon tested the healthfulness of hamburgers by putting a University of Minnesota medical student on diet of only hamburgers and water for 13 weeks.
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