364:"Cathcart, Professor Edward Provan, (1877–18 Feb. 1954), Hon. Lt-Col RAMC; Regius Prof. Of Physiology, Glasgow Univ., 1928–47, now Emeritus; Hon. Fellow, Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; late Mem. War Cabinet Scientific Committee on Food Policy; late Member Adv. Council on Education in Scotland; late Member Medical Advisory Committee (Scotland); late Member Agricultural Research Council (Privy Council); late Member Medical Research Council (Privy Council); late Member Army Hygiene Advisory Committee; late Member General Medical Council; late Chairman Industrial Health Research Board; late Member Advisory Committee on Agricultural Science, Development Commission; late Chairman Scottish Health Services Committee; Member Advisory Committee on Nutrition, Ministry of Health; late Member Committee on Nutrition in the Colonial Empire (Economic Advisory Council); late Member National Advisory Council on Physical Training (Scotland)".
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on 18 July 1877, the son of
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he published influential papers on protein metabolism in humans. He is also remembered as
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Member of the advisory board on nutrition to the
Ministry of Health
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Wishart, George M (1954). "Edward Provan
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The Energy Expenditure of the Infantry Recruit in Training
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at the University from 1928 until his retiral in 1947.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: E P Cathcart
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Norah Neilson Gray - Edward Provan Cathcart c. 1930
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