Abstract
The Klaus Schwarz Medal is presented each year to a scientist or a team of scientists who have contributed to biological trace element research. The recipient for 1998 was James E. Oldfield, Professor emeritus of Animal Nutrition, Department of Animal Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. Oldfield is one of the leading pioneers in the study and eradication of white muscle disease (WMD). He began publishing on this subject in 1955, showing how the disease can be produced experimentally and as early as 1958 demonstrated (with O. H. Muth, L. F. Remmert, and J. R. Schubert) the protective effects of selenium and vitamin E. The study of WMD and other selenium-responsive conditions in ruminants as well as various aspects of selenium in animal nutrition continued to occupy him during the next four decades. As the Head of
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