Previous Atwater Lecturers

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2022	Nutrition Information/Misinformation: Who's Right? Who decides?
	Alice H. Lichtenstein, Director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory and Senior Scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, and Stanley N. Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy at the Friedman School, at Tufts University
2021	Predictive Strength of Atwater Values at the Biology: Behavior Interface
	Richard D. Mattes, Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
	USDA, National Agricultural Libraries Oral History Series: Richard D. Mattes
2019	Lessons in the Tradition of Atwater
	George A. Bray, Professor Emeritus, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and Visiting Scientist, Children’s Hospital of Oakland Research Institute in Oakland, California
2018	From Measuring Rods and Calipers to Big Data: The Study of Human Body Composition Grows Up
	Steven B. Heymsfield, Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Body Composition-Metabolism Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2017	Traveling the Road From Precision to Imprecision - Have I Gone in the Wrong Direction?
	Dennis M. Bier, Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine
2016	How can nutrition scientists help reverse the obesity epidemic?
	Susan B. Roberts, Professor of psychiatry, Tufts Medical School, and Professor of Nutrition and Director, Energy Metabolism Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University
2015	Food is not a talisman: Reflections on the science and practice of nutrition
	Joanne L. Slavin, Professor, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota
2014	Energetics and Obesity: Epistemological, Evidentiary, and Social Challenges in Advancing Knowledge
	David B. Allison, Director, Nutrition Obesity Research Center; Associate Dean for Science, School of Public Health and Distinguished Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2013	How Can We Make Diet Relevant in the Age of Powerful Drugs?
	David J.A. Jenkins, Director of the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada, and Professor and Canada Research Chair in Nutrition and Metabolism, Departments of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto
2012	From Instinct to Intellect: 150 Years in the Evolution of Energy Balance in Man
	James O. Hill, Professor of pediatrics and medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver and director, Center for Human Nutrition, Denver
2011	Driving from Vitamin A to Zinc During the Genomic Revolution
	Robert J. Cousins, Director of the Center for Nutritional Sciences and Joinst professor of biochemistry at the University of Florida
2010	Retinoids and Carotenoids: A Journey in Human Biology
	Robert M. Russell, Special expert to the Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health
2009	Individualized Nutrition: How Genes, Epigenetics and Sex Interact to Create a Dietary Requirement for the Nutrient Choline
	Steven H. Zeisel, Director, Nutrition Research Institute, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2008	Nutrients and the Problem of Proof
	Robert P. Heaney, Professor of Medicine, Osteoporosis Research Center, Creighton University Medical Center
2007	High Satiety: Eating Less in an Obesigenic Environment
	Barbara J. Rolls, Helen A. Guthrie Chair in Nutrition, Pennsylvania State University
2006	Color, Critters, and Cancer
	John W. Erdman, Jr., Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois
2005	Human Energy Requirements: From Atwater to Doubly Labeled Water
	Dale A. Schoeller, Professor of Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2004	Challenges of Translating Research Knowledge Into Solutions for Health Problems: Zinc as an Example
	Janet C. King, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California
2003	Defining Nutrient Requirements from a Perspective of Bone-Related Nutrients
	Connie M. Weaver, Distinguished Professor, Department of Foods & Nutrition, Purdue University
2002	The Metabolic Role of Vitamin K: An Historical and Future Perspective
	John Suttie, Katherine Berns Van Donk Steenbock Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2001	Human Nutrient Requirements: A Critical Knowledge Base Challenged by the Post-Genome Era
	Vernon Young, Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2000	Rationale for Infant Feeding Recommendations
	Samuel J. Fomon, Emeritus Professor, Department of Pediatrics College of Medicine, University of Iowa
1999	The Third Century of Nutrition Research policy  - Shared Responsibility
	Jacqueline Dupont, Professor, Florida State University, Retired ARS National Program Leader for Human Nutrition
1998	Nutrition of the Poor: Who Suffers? Who Benefits?
	Jean-Pierre Habicht, James Jamison Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology, Cornell University
1997	The Food Supply, Its Science, and Mankind
	Sanford A. Miller Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
1996	Health Care Restructuring and Dietetics: Renaissance or Requiem for the Profession
	Johanna T. Dwyer, Director, Frances Stern Nutrition Center, New England Medical Center Tufts University School of Medicine
1995	Consuming Passions: Energy Regulation, Biological Revolution, and Political Realities
	M.R.C. Greenwood, Associate Director for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
1994	Foods, Vitamins and Policy: The Folate Case
	Irwin H. Rosenberg, Jean Mayer Professor in Nutrition, Physiology, and Medicine, Tufts University, and Director of USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University
1993	The Life and Times of W.O. Atwater Centennial
	Kenneth J. Carpenter, Distinguished Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
1992	The Irresistible Fascination of Carotenoids and Vitamin A
	James A. Olson, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Iowa State University
1991	Why Calories Count
	R. Gaurth Hansen, Distinguished Provost Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Nutrition and Food Sciences and Biochemistry, Utah State University
1990	The Science And The Practice Of Nutrition: Reflections And Directions
	Alfred E. Harper, E.V. McCollum Professor of Nutrition, University of Wisconsin
1989	The Many Faces Of Nutrition Education
	Helen A. Guthrie, Professor and Head, Nutrition Department, The Pennsylvania State University.
1988	John E. Kinsella, Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Food Chemistry and General Foods Distinguished Professor of Food Science, Cornell University
1987	Malden C. Nesheim, Director, Division of Nutrition, Cornell University
1986	Atwater: A Personal Tribute from the United Kingdom
	Elsie Widdowson, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, England
1985	Nutrition: The Changing Scene
	Mark Hegsted, Professor of Nutrition, New England Regional Primate Research Centerr
1984	Zinc: Essentiality For Brain Development And Function
	Harold H. Sandstead, Director, North Atlantic Area, Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University
1983	Energy in Human Nutrition: Perspectives and Problems
	George H. Beaton, Professor of Nutrition Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
1982	Edwin M. Foster, Director, Food Research Institute, University of Wisconsin
1981	Nutrition, Stimulation, Mental Development and Learning
	Joaquin Cravioto, Professor of Pediatrics and Scientific Director, National Institute for Children's Health Sciences and Technology, Mexico City, Mexico
1980	Overweight, Obesity, Coronary Heart Disease and Mortality
	Ancel Keys, Professor, Division of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota
1979	The Vitamin D system in the regulation of calcium and phosphorus metabolism
	Hector F. DeLuca, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin
1978	Clinical Nutrition - Where Human Ecology and Internal Medicine Meet
	Robert E. Olson, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, St. Louis University
1977	Through a Glass Darkly: Discerning the Practical Implications of Human Dietary Protein-Energy Interrelationships
	Nevin S. Scrimshaw, Institute Professor and Head of the Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1976	Food Science: Past, Present and Future
	Emil M. Mrak, Chancellor Emeritus, University of California at Davis
1975	Nutrition Science: An Overview of American Genius
	William J. Darby, President, The Nutrition Foundation, Inc.
1974	Nutrition and Numbers in the Third World
	J. George Harrar, President Emeritus, Rockefeller Foundation
1973	Marina N. Whitman, Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
1971	Decision Making in the Biological Field
	Jean Mayer, Professor of Nutrition and Lecturer on the History of Public Health, Harvard University
1970	Can Man Shape His Future?
	Philip Handler, President, National Academy of Sciences, and Chairman, National Research Council
1969	Electrons, Defense, and Regulation
	Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Director, Institute for Muscle Research, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
1968	Some Central Nutritional Problems Of The Present Time
	Artturi I. Virtanen, Director, Biochemical Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland