"... Dr Isabella Leitch ... had a profound but often unacknowledged or unrecognizaed influence on nutritional science and scientists. Though a member of the since its formation, she never held office except as an editor of the first three volumes of the ' and the first five volumes of the . She contributed several papers of notable originality to its meetings and in 1979 the Society paid tribute by electing her as an Honorary Member. She was Director of the Commonwealth Bureau of Nutrition in Aberdeen from 1945 until her retirement in 1960; and as a member of staff of the Bureau since its formation was the driving force behind Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews for over 30 years."
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Women born in the 19th centuryUniversity of Aberdeen alumniFeminists from ScotlandWomen scientists from Scotland
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Isabella Leitch
(13 February 1890 – 21 July 1980) was a Scottish feminist, suffragette, nutritional physiologist, and leading expert on nutritional aspects of human pregnancy. She was fluent in French, German, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, had an efficient reading knowledge in Dutch and Italian, and had some knowledge of Icelandic and Spanish.
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