Robert Olaf Nesheim (September 13, 1921 – July 19, 2008) was an American nutritionist for Quaker Oats.
During his time he worked for Quaker he helped develop cereals such as Cap'n Crunch and Life.
He briefly taught at his alma mater, the University of Illinois, in the 1960s.
Nesheim served with Nevin S. Scrimshaw and others on the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences in 1974 when the Committee on Amino Acids reported.
[2] He married nutritionist Doris Howes Calloway in 1981.