His pioneering and extensive publications in the area of human nutrition and food science include over 20 books and monographs and hundreds of scholarly articles.
[1] He was awarded the Bolton L. Corson Medal in 1976 and the World Food Prize in 1991.
[2] Scrimshaw spent the last years of his life on a farm in Thornton, New Hampshire, where he died at 95.
[3] Scrimshaw came from New England, and spent the 1930s and 1940s there studying nutrition, especially protein combining, alongside his wife and fellow scientist, Mary Goodrich.
They designed meals using local vegetables to fight against the scourge of kwashiorkor.