Donald Berthold Zilversmit (July 11, 1919 – September 16, 2010) was a Dutch-born U.S. nutritional biochemist, researcher and educator.
He began studies at Utrecht University but escaped before the German invasion in World War II.
Zilversmit joined the faculty of Cornell's Graduate School of Nutrition in 1966 and remained until retirement in 1990.
[1] Zilversmit authored or co-authored over 300 publications and made major contributions to the understanding of the relationship between diet and cardiovascular disease.
He greatly contributed to the understanding of atherogenesis, including basic mechanisms in lipid transport and exchange.