Thomas Burr Osborne (S&B 1881)
Scientist. Agricultural Experiment Station. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Psi Upsilon.[4]
Honorary fellow London Chemical Society, associate member La Societe Royale des Sciences Medhales et Naturelles de Bruxelles; fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences; member National Academy of Sciences, American Society of Biological Chemists, American Chemical Society, American Philosophical Society, American Physiological Society, Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Deutsche Cbemische Gesellschaft, and Die Katserhcb Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Zu Halle.
author: Proteins of the Wheat Kernel (1907) and The Vegetable Proteins (1909, second edition 1924); author also of numerous papers, many of them in collaboration with various co-workers, on the chemistry of vegetable proteins, and collaborator since 1909 with Lafayette B. Mendel, ‘91, in extensive studies on proteins and nutrition, results of his investigations being published chiefly in American Chemical Journal, Journal of the American Chemical Society’, American Journal of Science, American Journal of Physiology, Year Book of Carnegie Institution of Washington, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Infectious Diseases, and Zeitschrift furphysiologische Chemie; had contributed also to the Atlantic Monthly.[4]
**1928 - elected to Sigma Xi in March.[4]
**Since 1923 - Research associate in biochemistry at Yale.[4]
**Since 1916 - Director of Second National Bank of New Haven.[4]
**1914 - A governor of the Graduates Club, New Haven.[4]
**1910 - President of American Society of Biological Chemists.[4] Sc.D. Yale.[4]
**1906 to 1929 - Associate editor of Journal of Biological Chemistry.[4]
Beginning 1904 to 31 Dec 1928 - Was assisted by grants from Carnegie Institution of Washington, which he served as a research associate.[4]
**1900 - Received gold medal of the Exposition of Paris and John Scott Medal 1922; first recipient (in 1928) of Thomas Burr Osborne Gold Medal, established in his honor by American Association of Cereal Chemists in 1926.[4]
1889 - began investigation of the proteins of plant origin, which formed the main subject of his scientific work; his researches early won for him the reputation of being the foremost expert on plant proteins in the world.[4]
23 Jun 1886, Married Elizabeth Annah, daughter of Samuel William Johnson (honorary M.A. 1857), professor of chemistry at Yale and founder of Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, and Elizabeth Erwin (Blinn) Johnson. Children: Arthur Dimori (B.A. 1908, LL.B. Harvard 1911) and Francis Blake (died in childhood).[4]
1886 until his retirement 30 Jun 1928 - Member of scientific staff of Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (the first of its kind in this country), when he became advisory biochemist at the Station.[4]
1885 - Ph.D. Yale.[4]
1883 to 1886 - Assistant in analytical chemistry at Yale.[4]
1882 to 1885 - Specialized in chemistry in Yale Graduate School (Ph.D. 1885).[4]
1881 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]
Died 29 Jan 1929, from Coronary Occlusion. Age 69.[4]
Note:
Brother, Arthur Sherwood Osborne (S&B1882)
Nephew, Henry T. Blake (S&B1848)
Father, Arthur Dimon Osborne (B.A. 1848), a lawyer and banker; director, president, and later vice-president of Second National Bank of New Haven; member of New Haven Board of Education and chairman of committee on schools, and clerk of Supreme and Superior courts for New Haven County, son of Thomas Burr Osborne (B A. 1817, LL D. Wesleyan 1856) and Elizabeth Huntington (Dimon) Osborne.[4]
[[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen
https://the-eye.eu/public/concen.org/Americas%20Secret%20Establishment%20Skull%20%26%20Bones%20Society%20322%20%5Bpack%5D/docs/Skull%20and%20Bones%20Membership%20List.pdf
[4] - Yale Obituary Page 84 / on the page 83
[5] - FYI - Wiki - Thomas Burr Osborne (S&B 1881)
[6] - FYI - Wiki - Lafayette Mendel
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