Alfred Bacharach

Alfred Louis Bacharach (11 August 189116 July 1966), was a British food scientist, scientific author, socialist, and editor of music history and criticism. and later became involved with the left-wing Guild Socialist Movement and (for forty years) with the Labour Research Department. From 1914 and for the rest of his life he was closely associated with the Working Men's College in North West London, where friends and colleagues included Ivor Brown and C. E. M. Joad, as well as Ewer. a subject on which he worked with Harry Jephcott. Bacharach advocated the fortification of baby milk with vitamin D in Britain, helping to eliminate rickets which was previously rife in northern cities.

While at Glaxo he was the author of Science and Nutrition (1st edition, 1938; 2nd edition, 1945 ), and edited, with Theodore Rendle, The Nation's Food: A Survey of Scientific Data (1946). He was the editor (with Desmond Laurence), of the two volume Evaluation of Drug Activities: Pharmacometrics (1964), and (with Otto Edholm) Exploration Medicine (1965) and The Physiology of Human Survival (1965).

Outside of Glaxo, Bacharach was a founding member and president of Nutrition Society, and a vice president of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Society of Chemical Industry and the Society of Public Analysts. He also worked on many other councils and scientific committees. He persuaded internationally famous artists such as Harriet Cohen and Solomon to perform at the College, including several first performances of music by Arnold Bax. He was a contributor to the Week-end Review, The Athenaeum and the New Statesman. He was a member of the Savage Club, and listed his other enthusiasms as chess and birdwatching.

He died at his home in Hampstead (26 Willow Road, London NW3) aged 74, survived by his wife Elizabeth Owen (known as Lily, died 1971) and their two sons.