Arthur Waldorf Thomas (February 18, 1891 - March 22, 1982)[1] was a professor and chemist who specialized in colloid chemistry.
[3] Arthur W. Thomas, then an instructor in Food Chemistry at Columbia University, volunteered for military service in the spring of 1917 and was mustered in as a First Lieutenant in the newly formed Sanitary Corps in the U.S. National Army in September 1917.
Thomas took part in food surveys at army cantonments in the Northeast and also served in the Office of the Surgeon General in Washington.
1 in the northwest, in the front lines with the 26th (Yankee) and 89th (Middle West) Divisions in the Toul sector, and at the Sanitary Corps laboratory station at Dijon where he worked with other offices in the updating of army food rations.
In June 1919 he was involved in inspections of the adequacies of ship bakeries and galleys of three dozen Army and Navy troop transports returning thousands of men to America.