Alice Copping (14 May 1906 – 16 January 1996http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=877556&fileId=S0007114596001249 An Appreciation: Alice Mary Copping) was senior lecturer in nutrition,

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. She was born in

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. Copping attended

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, and graduated as Master of Science in 1926. She was awarded the Sarah Ann Rhodes scholarship the following year, and did two years of research work under J. C. Drummond at

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. She then returned to New Zealand to lecture at the School of Home Science,

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for a year, before returning to London to work in the Division of Nutrition at the Lister Institute. Copping was employed as the editorial assistant of the periodical Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews from its inception in 1931, and for a period of nearly 20 years worked solidly for the Institute on research on topics such as

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, bread and

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products, and wartime diets. In 1949 she was employed on the staff of Queen Elizabeth College, and became a senior lecturer during her time there. Copping was a consultant on nutrition education for the

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symposium in 1959, and in 1961 acted as chairman of programme for the Third International Congress of Dietetics in London.

References

Encyclopedia of New Zealand 1966: Expatriates - Biographies - Alice Copping
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