Clive McCay (1898-1967) is widely honored for his discovery
76 years ago that caloric restriction prolongs the life span of rats. Although
this turned out to be one of the greatest discoveries ever made in biology and
medicine, it was only one of the many important contributions that he made to
our knowledge of nutritional physiology.
Clive grew up in Indiana and did
his undergraduate work at the University of Illinois, majoring in chemistry and
physics.He obtained the M.S. degree in 1923 at Iowa State University
and the Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkley
in 1925. He then completed a National Research Council Fellowship with L. B.
Mendel at Yale.
In 1927 he accepted an invitation to join the Department of
Animal Science (then named Animal Husbandry) at Cornell University as an
Assistant Professor.
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