{{Short description|American nutritionist (1866–1932)}} {{infobox person | honorific_suffix = FRS(For) FRSE | birth_date = {{birth date|1866|02|05}} | birth_place = Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1932|07|18|1866|02|05}} | death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | education = | image = Graham Lusk 1923.png | alma_mater = Columbia University<br />Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) | parents = William Thompson Lusk<br />Mary Hartwell Chittenden | spouse = Mary Woodbridge Tiffany | relatives = Anna Hartwell Lusk (sister)<br />Simeon B. Chittenden (grandfather) }}

'''Graham Lusk''' FRS(For) FRSE (February 15, 1866 – July 18, 1932)<ref name="DrGLObit1932"/> was an American physiologist, and nutritionist.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1001/jama.1967.03120120118027| title=What Goes In| journal=JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association| volume=199| issue=12| pages=930| year=1967}}</ref> He graduated from Columbia University, and from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with a PhD.<ref>{{cite journal | pmc=2096233 | volume=8 | issue=10 |pages = 631–634| journal=Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine | title=Obituary of Graham Lusk|year = 1932|last1 = Wallace|first1 = G. B.}}</ref> He was an expert on diabetes.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1038/130300a0| title=Prof. Graham Lusk, For.Mem.R.S| journal=Nature| volume=130| issue=3278| pages=300–302| year=1932| last1=H| first1=F. G.| bibcode=1932Natur.130..300F| doi-access=free}}</ref> He was profoundly deaf from the age of 30.

==Early life== He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on February 15, 1866, the son of Prof. William Thompson Lusk of Long Island College of Medicine and his wife, Mary Hartwell Chittenden.<ref name="DrGLObit1932"/> His maternal grandfather was U.S. Representative Simeon B. Chittenden, and his sister Anna Hartwell Lusk, was a member of Mrs. Astor's "Four Hundred" during the Gilded Age.

He studied at Columbia School of Mines, graduating M.A. in 1887. He did further postgraduate studies in Germany under Professor Carl Voit at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München gaining a doctorate (Ph.D.) in 1891.<ref name="DrGLObit1932"/>

==Career== In 1892, he began assisting in lectures at Yale Medical School and in 1895 became Professor of Physiology there.<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2017-06-05|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1898, he moved to Bellevue Hospital, New York City and in 1909 to Cornell University where he remained until death. His papers are held at Cornell University.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.med.cornell.edu/archives/pdf/personal_aids/Lusk.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-11-25 |archive-date=2012-06-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615010603/http://www.med.cornell.edu/archives/pdf/personal_aids/Lusk.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1899 (largely due to his father's Scottish roots), he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Diarmid Noel Paton, John Clarence Webster, Sir John Batty Tuke and Alexander Bruce. He was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1915 and the American Philosophical Society in 1924.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Grahm+Lusk&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-08-24 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>

In 1932, he was also elected a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of London.<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2017-06-05|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Personal life and death== In 1899, he married Mary Woodbridge Tiffany, a daughter of Louis Comfort Tiffany.<ref name="Cyclopædia1916">{{cite book |title=The National Cyclopædia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time |date=1916 |publisher=J. T. White |page=89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3zYOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA89 |accessdate=February 3, 2019 |language=en}}</ref> Together, they were the parents of:<ref name="DrGLObit1932"/>

*William Thompson Lusk (1901-1978), who married Katharine Adams.<ref name="WTLObit1978">{{cite news |title=William T. Lusk Dies, Ex-Head of Tiffany |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/06/archives/william-t-lusk-dies-exhead-of-tiffany-gem-expert-was-greatgrandson.html |accessdate=February 3, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=March 6, 1978}}</ref> *Louise Tiffany Lusk (1902-1994), who married Collier Platt.<ref name="HBPObit2015">{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Patricia |title=Henry B. Platt, Scion Who Gave Tiffany Sparkle, Dies at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/business/henry-b-platt-scion-who-gave-tiffany-sparkle-dies-at-91.html |accessdate=February 3, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=July 29, 2015}}</ref> *Louis Tiffany Lusk (1906-1969), who married Eloise Prentice.<ref name="yale">{{cite web |title=A Corner of the 72nd Street Studio |url=https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/9761 |website=artgallery.yale.edu |publisher=Yale University Art Gallery |accessdate=February 3, 2019}}</ref>

Dr. Graham Lusk died in New York on July 18, 1932, aged 66.<ref name="DrGLObit1932">{{cite news |title=DR. GRAHAM LUSK, PHYSIOLOGIST, DIES. WROTE ON DIET PROBLEMS.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1932/07/19/100777002.pdf |accessdate=February 3, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=July 19, 1932 |language=en}}</ref>

==Selected publications== *[https://archive.org/details/sciencenutrition00luskrich/page/n6 ''The Elements of the Science of Nutrition''] (1906, 1917) *''History of Nutrition'' (unfinished at death)

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==External links== {{wikisource|works=or}} *{{Gutenberg author | id=35866| name=Graham Lusk}} *{{Internet Archive author |sname=Graham Lusk}} *[http://www.manybooks.net/titles/luskg3247232472-8.html Food in War Time by Graham Lusk - Free eBook] *[http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/lusk-graham.pdf National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir]

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