Watt, Bernice K. (Bernice Kunerth), 1910-

Nutritionist. Bernice Lydia Kunerth was born on June 10, 1910 in Ames, Iowa, where her father, William Kunerth, served as a physics professor at Iowa State College. In 1932 she graduated with a combined major in foods, nutrition, and chemistry from Iowa State College and received her Master of Science (1933) from Kansas State University.

Kunerth worked as a food/nutrition research technician and instructor at Kansas State until 1938 when she went to New York and acquired a Ph. D (1940) in Nutrition Chemistry from Columbia University. In 1942 she began working for the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. and married Raymond Dewey Watt in 1942.

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