Abstract
Daniel Walter Peterson, professor of avian sciences, University of California, Davis, California, died of a sudden heart attack on June 18, 1980.He was born April 14, 1917, in Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada. A University of Chicago graduate of 1942, he worked in the Manhattan project. He moved to the University of California, Berkeley, at the end of World War II and obtained his Ph.D. in nutrition in 1950. He joined the faculty of poultry husbandry at Davis in 1953.He taught courses in survey of poultry and allied industries, muscle as food, birds and their eggs as food, principles of nutrition, food fads, concepts of vegetarianism, and a beginning nutrition seminar for incoming graduate students.His research interests included nutrition in relation to metabolic disease such as the role of saponins and plant sterols in cholesterol metabolism; dietary induction of gout; effect of diet and exercise in lipid metabolism of .
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