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Harvey Washington Wiley (October 18, 1844 – June 30, 1930) was an American chemist who advocated successfully for the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and subsequently worked at the Good Housekeeping Institute laboratories.
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Wiley spent most of his time in the Imperial Food Laboratory in Bismarck working with Eugene Sell, mastering the use of the polariscope and studying sugar chemistry.
By his late 30s, he was a professor of chemistry at Purdue University. Then, in 1883, he was persuaded to give up academic life and move to Washington, D.C., as chief chemist in what is now the...
Jan 21, 2020 · In 1902, Wiley recruited 12 robust young men with brave hearts and strong stomachs and fed them meals tainted with increasing amounts of common chemical additives such as borax, salicylic acid,...
Nov 3, 2018 · After briefly serving in the Civil War, Wiley became a chemistry professor, and in 1883 was named the Department of Agriculture's chief chemist. The department, traditionally concerned with agribusiness, became the vehicle for his 30-year campaign for safe food and proper labelling.
Jun 27, 2018 · In 1874 Wiley became professor of chemistry at Purdue University and served as Indiana state chemist, except for a short interlude of European study, until 1883, when he was appointed chief of the Division (later Bureau) of Chemistry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley was the head of the Bureau of Chemistry in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the precursor of today’s Food and Drug Administration. He is best remembered today as an important force behind the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 (PFDA), which was the first important national legislation of the ...
