Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mayer laughed and moved down the line to carefully consider the choice of salads. He picked up a plastic wrapped three-bean salad and then paused before the fruit. "Are you sure you won't have some fruit?" he asked his luncheon guest. She shook her head. "Not even an apple?" he persisted. He filled a glass with lemonade...
...compactly built man with a French accent, Mayer radiates his special brand of charm even when he's ordering lunch. While passing through the line he has managed to say something to all the food service employees, the cashier, and several students. But he is not, by any means, an overbearing chatterbox. A man of outstanding accomplishments. Mayer is also exceptionally modest. He would rather talk about his work as master of Dudley House than about his many achievements in the field of nutrition...
Born in Paris in 1920, Mayer is the son of the famous French physiologist, Andre Mayer. Father and son have had remarkably similar careers. As students, both excelled in the humanities as well as the sciences. Both were decorated during world wars. Andre taught in a French medical school; Jean is a professor of nutrition, affiliated with the Harvard School of Public Health for 25 years. While Andre was instrumental in forming and leading the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Jean served on many U.N. nutrition committees and has advised Presidents Nixon and Ford on U.S. food...
...Mayer is uncertain how much his father influenced his career choice. "I was always very interested in physiology," said Mayer, who earned a Ph.D. in physiological chemistry from Yale and a doctor of science from the University of Paris. "I don't think I had that many conversations with my father about my future or science until I embarked on that career...
...Mayer could have easily followed his father and had a successful career in France, but he decided, after visiting the United States in 1939, that he would eventually make his home here. This decision often put him in an awkard position when serving on General de Gaulle's private staff during the war. Mayer says now that de Gaulle fed him "a lot of nasty and often very justified comments on the way the United States treated France...