Jesse Francis McClendon Scientist
Jesse Francis McClendon (December 21, 1880 – November 22, 1976) was an American chemist, zoologist and physiologist. He is remembered today mainly for the first pH measurement of human stomach in situ.Jesse F. McClendon made substantial contributions in a variety of fields, including invertebrate zoology, nutrition, life processes of cell membranes, the importance of pH control, the role of iodine in human health and specifically its relation to prevention of goiters.In the early 1930s Jesse F. McClendon tested the healthfulness of hamburgers by putting a University of Minnesota medical student on only hamburgers and water diet for 13 weeks.