Arnold Peter Meiklejohn | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1909 |
| Died | 14 June 1961 (aged 51–52) |
| Education | |
| Known for | Feeding of inmates and the supervision of 97 medical students at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Harvard Medical School United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration University of Edinburgh |
Arnold Peter Meiklejohn (1909 – 14 June 1961) was an English physician and academic, specializing in nutrition.
In 1938, he was elected as a Peabody Fellow of the Harvard Medical School and during the Second World War worked for the Rockefeller Foundation and as nutrition adviser to UNRRA. In 1945, shortly after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Meiklejohn was put in charge of administering a starvation diet to the camp’s severely malnourished and dying inmates.
After the war, he became a lecturer in nutrition at the University of Edinburgh and in 1947, at the request of the Medical Research Council (MRC), assessed and reported on the state of nutrition of German civilians.
He wrote a number of papers on nutrition, particularly on errors of metabolism, and with Sir Stanley Davidson and R. Passmore was co-author of the textbook Human Nutrition and Dietetics (1959).