Reminiscenses of Nutrition Research with Dr. Clive McCay at the Close of World War II

One day in 1945 at the close of World War 11, patrician, a soft-spoken Naval Commander with short-cropped black hair, high bones, slightly stooped, toured the Protein Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, with the then acting department chairman, David Greenberg. Mrs. Brown and I had enrolled in Dr. Greenberg's course in physical chemistry of proteins while waiting for my ship, a supply vessel, delayed by a Pacific typhoon. After introductions we talked, Dr. Mc Cay and i, of Mendel and later Vickery's work with proteins and their structure. We Cound many thoughts in common and soon I was assigned to the Nutrition Unit of the Naval Medical Research Institute at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda where he was chief of the nutrition section with the late Ross Gortner. He has been in charge also of nutrition for the Naval forces in the Pacific.