Adelaide Albertina Spohn (May 25, 1886 – July 17, 1968) was an American physiologist, nutritionist, and college professor.

[3] She earned a Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1922, with a dissertation titled "A Critical Investigation and an Application of the Rat Growth Method for the Study of Vitamin B".

[5] Spohn taught high school[6] and was a laboratory assistant while she was completing her graduate studies.

After completing her doctoral work, Spohn was a professor of nutrition[7] in the department of home economics at Cornell University,[8] where her colleagues included Martha Van Rensselaer, Flora Rose, Claribel Nye, Beulah Blackmore, and other founders of the field.

[9][10] In the early 1930s, she moved back to Chicago, where she was director of nutritional services for the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission,[11] and nutritionist on staff at the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund,[12] into the 1940s.