Correspondence with Reading University

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1996-2002

Jeannette Valaire Ewin PhD, FRSM (1937-2010) was an American writer with an academic background in nutrition. She studied at the School of Medicine, Maryland, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Nutrition, Harvard University, where she studied under Dr D Mark Hegsted. In 1996 Ewin was given a grant by David Horribin to write a biography of the nutritionist Dr Hugh Macdonald Sinclair. This was published in 2001 by Oxford University Press as 'Fine Wines and Fish Oils: The Life of Hugh Macdonald Sinclair.

Correspondence with staff of the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of Reading and other members of University staff relating to Hugh Macdonald Sinclair. Includes correspondence with Professor Christine Williams, first Hugh Sinclair Professor of Human Nutrition, Dr Ann Walker, Professor Ray Dils, Professor Mike Gurr, Robert Ascott (Bursar), Papers relate to access to Sinclair's archive, arranging interviews and publication of the biography.

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