John Waterlow

John Conrad Waterlow (13 June 1916 – 19 October 2010) was a British physiologist who specialised in childhood malnutrition. Waterlow was born into a well known London printing family. Whilst growing up, the family home was often visited by the likes of E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf.

Education Waterlow was educated at Eton College. Whilst at school, Waterlow was inspired by a lecture about Leprosy in West Africa given by Tubby Clayton. He graduated in 1935 with a first class degree in physiology and went on to qualify as a doctor in 1942 having studied at the London Hospital Medical College, during which much time was spent treating casualties of The Blitz. and the microbalance was sensitive to within one millionth of a gram. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1982.

Whilst in the Caribbean he established 'The Tropical Metabolism Research Unit' at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.

'Protein-energy malnutrition: the nature and extent of the problem' (1992) - JC Waterlow.

Personal life Waterlow was the son of Sir Sydney Waterlow, a British diplomat and Helen Eckhard who was from a well off family of German immigrants living in Manchester. In 1939 he married Angela Grey who was a history student at Cambridge University and they later went on to have two sons and one daughter; Sarah, Oliver and Dick.