University of Buffalo A.M., 1920 Milicent Louise Hathaway (1898 – 1974) was an American nutritionist and physiological chemist best known for her research on human metabolism.

[1] She is the author or co-author of more than twenty-five technical publications and papers and was the recipient of the Borden Award, given by the American Association of Home Economics in 1947.

[2] Hathaway, Milicent Louise, Provitamin D Potencies, Absorption Spectra, and Chemical Studies of Heat-Treated Cholesterol.

Milicent L. Hathaway, Frieda L. Meyer, and Sadye F. Adelson “School Lunches: Their Nutritive Value and Relation to the Health and Diet of Children”,  40, no.

https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.40.9.1096 PMID 15432800 [3] Further Studies on the Calcium Requirement of Preschool Children: Two Figures Dorothy Sheldon McLean, Gladys Kinsman Lewis, Elizabeth Jensen, Milicent Hathaway, Herta Breiter, Julia Outhouse Holmes The Journal of Nutrition, Volume 31, Issue 1, January 1946, Pages 127–140, https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/31.1.127