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A TWATER'S development of apparatus for the exact measurement of the heat given off by the human body under varied conditions of food-supply and activity is well known. Prof. F. G. Benedict, who cooperated with Atwater, has continued similar observations as director of the Nutrition Laboratory in Boston, which is devoted exclusively to work of this type, and is well endowed by the Carnegie Institute for that purpose. The calorimeter equipment of this new laboratory, as described by Benedict and Carpenter in a recent publication,1 affords remarkable evidence of the value that may be secured by giving a mature investigator a free hand in the organisation of means for furthering standard research of the type in which he is most interested.
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A Nutrition Laboratory . Nature 83, 411 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083411a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/083411a0