Dr. Rhoads: We are deeply honored to receive the Joseph Goldberger Award, memorializing as it does a man whose contributions in helping to elucidate the metabolic significance of the vitamin B complex, initiated a wave of important discoveries in the field of nutrition. The award has been enhanced by the reputations and contributions of the several scientists who have been recipients in the past. Dr. Dudrick and I wish to acknowledge frankly our great indebtedness to our associates, past and present, in studies of surgical nutrition. These include Dr. I. S. Ravdin, who was one of the first surgeons to recognize the relevance of nutritional studies to the progress of surgical science, and who stayed with the field almost exclusively through the 1930s and early 1940s; to Dr. Harry M. Vars, who joined the Harrison Department of Surgical Research in 1936 as a biochemist and who has devoted his entire
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Stanley J. Dudrick (1971) studied this question.