Zonja Wallen-Lawrence Explained

Zonja Wallen-Lawrence
Birth Date:September 17, 1892
Birth Place:Stockholm, Sweden
Death Date:January 28, 1986 (aged 93)
Death Place:Washington, D.C.
Occupation:Biochemist, college professor, nutritionist
Spouse(S):John V. Lawrence

Zonja Elizabeth Wallen-Lawrence (September 17, 1892 – January 28, 1986) was a Swedish-born American biochemist, college professor, and nutritionist. She worked for the United States Department of Agriculture in the 1920s, and was a chemistry professor at Vassar College and Mount Holyoke College.

Early life and education

Wallén was born in Stockholm, the daughter of Carl Wilhelm Wallén and Eva Charlotta Andersdotter Wallén. She moved to the United States in 1903, with her family. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 1915, and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry there in 1936.[1] [2] For the 1927–1928 academic year, she held a fellowship from the Evaporated Milk Association to do research at the University of Chicago.[3]

Career

Wallen taught chemistry at the University of Chicago from 1916 to 1918.[4] From 1917 to 1920 and from 1922 to 1923, she taught chemistry at Vassar College.[5] [6] She taught at Mount Holyoke College from 1918 to 1920.[7]

Walle-Lawrence and her husband lived on the Gila River Indian Reservation from 1920 to 1921, as employees of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture. They collected handmade baskets and other artifacts during their time at Gila River, some of which are now in the collection of the National Museum of the American Indian.[8] [9]

During World War II, Wallen-Lawrence taught public nutrition classes for the American Red Cross at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.[10] [11] [12] After the war, she was a member of the executive committee of the St. Louis Consumer Federation,[13] [14] and the Fight Inflation Committee of Greater St. Louis,[15] and active in the American Association of University Women (AAUW).[16] She consulted on campaigns for dairy inspection and bread enrichment. "We have such a tremendous fund of knowledge, which doesn't which doesn't do much good until it is in the hands of the layman, or more specifically the housewife, and is understood by everyone," she explained in 1950, about her nutrition education work.

Publications

In the 1920s and 1930s, while Wallen-Lawrence was an academic biochemist, she published her research in professional journals including Journal of Agricultural Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and Experimental Biology and Medicine.

Personal life

Wallen married physician and medical researcher John Vincent Lawrence in 1920.[24] Her husband died in 1960, and she died in 1986, at the age of 93, in Washington, D.C.

Notes and References

  1. News: Brainerd . Dorothy . 1950-04-02 . Dr. Zonia Lawrence Spreads the Gospel of Good Food Habits . 75 . St. Louis Post-Dispatch . 2023-12-28 . Newspapers.com.
  2. Book: A List of American Doctoral Dissertations Printed in 1912-1938 . 1986 . U.S. Government Printing Office . en.
  3. Book: University of Chicago . Annual Register . 1925 . en.
  4. Book: University of Chicago . Annual Catalogue . 1918 . 234 . en.
  5. https://news.hrvh.org/veridian/?a=d&d=vcmisc19230615-01.2.35&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- "Appointments 1923-1924"
  6. Book: Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association . One hundred year biographical directory of Mount Holyoke college, 1837-1937 . 1937 . [South Hadley, Mass.] Published and compiled by the Alumnae association of Mount Holyoke college. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center . 32 . Internet Archive.
  7. Book: Vassar College . Reports of the President and the Treasurer . 1923 . 47–48 . en.
  8. Web site: Basket bowl . 2023-12-28 . National Museum of the American Indian.
  9. Web site: Basket jar . 2023-12-28 . National Museum of the American Indian .
  10. News: 1942-08-24 . Special Nutrition Course Sponsored for Teachers . 17 . The St. Louis Star and Times . 2023-12-28 . Newspapers.com.
  11. https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=med_alumni_quarterly "News from the Medical School and Affiliated Hospitals"
  12. News: 1946-11-19 . High Nutrition Standard, Lower Cost is Possible . 23 . St. Louis Post-Dispatch . 2023-12-28 . Newspapers.com.
  13. Book: United States Congress . Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress . 1957 . U.S. Government Printing Office . en.
  14. News: 1951-02-28 . Food Price Ceilings Urged by Consumers . 3 . St. Louis Post-Dispatch . 2023-12-28 . Newspapers.com.
  15. News: 1946-07-11 . A Sample of the American Veterans' Committee Technique . 2 . St. Louis Globe-Democrat . 2023-12-28 . Newspapers.com.
  16. News: 1955-11-27 . University Women . 49 . St. Louis Globe-Democrat . 2023-12-28 . Newspapers.com.
  17. Harris, J. Arthur, Zonja Wallen Lawrence, Walter F. Hoffman, John Vincent Lawrence, and A. T. Valentine. "The tissue fluids of Egyptian and Upland cottons and their F, hybrid." Journal of Agricultural Research 27 (1924): 267-328.
  18. Ronzoni . Ethel . Wallen-Lawrence . Zonja . August 1927 . Determination of Lactic Acid in Blood . Journal of Biological Chemistry . 74 . 2 . 363–377 . 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)84223-5 . 0021-9258. free .
  19. Wallen-Lawrence . Zonja . 1930-01-01 . The Relative Digestibility of Unsweetened Evaporated Milk, Boiled Milk and Raw Milk by Trypsin in Vitro . Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine . en . 39 . 1 . 18 . 10.1001/archpedi.1930.01930130030003 . 1072-4710.
  20. Van Dyke . H. B. . Wallen-Lawrence . Zonja . 1930-12-01 . On the Growth-Promoting Hormone of the Pituitary Body . Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics . en . 40 . 4 . 413–422 . 0022-3565.
  21. Wallen-Lawrence . Z. . Van Dyke . H. B. . 1931-06-01 . Difference Between Gonad-Stimulation by Extracts of Pregnancy-Urine and of Pituitary Body. . Experimental Biology and Medicine . en . 28 . 9 . 956 . 10.3181/00379727-28-5616 . 75166607 . 1535-3702.
  22. Van Dyke, H. B., and Zonja Wallen-Lawrence. "Further observations on the gonad-stimulating principle of the anterior lobe of the pituitary body." Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 47, no. 2 (1933): 163-181.
  23. Wallen-Lawrence . Zonja . 1934-07-01 . Proof of the Existence of a Follicle-Stimulating and a Luteinizing Hormone in the Anterior Lobe of the Pituitary Body . Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics . en . 51 . 3 . 263–286 . 0022-3565.
  24. December 1920 . Marriages . University of Chicago Magazine . 13 . 2 . 76.

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