nutritionist Fredrick John Stare (1910–2002) who later founded and chaired the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he served until 1976. Elvehjem met his wife Constance W. Elvehjem when she was an undergraduate at UW Madison. She died in 1999 at the age of 94 after many years supporting the museum and the Madison community. Elvehjem was stricken with a heart attack at his desk on the morning of July 27, 1962, at the age of sixty-one and died within the hour. Awards Willard Gibbs Medal – 1943 Albert Lasker Award for clinical medical research – 1952 Legacy Elvehjem's name appears on university awards, buildings, a town park, and a local elementary school in Madison, Wisconsin, another in Mc Farland, and a neighbourhood on the South-East Side of Madison nearby and its associated neighbourhood association. His name was formerly on the Elvehjem Art Center (later the Elvehjem Museum of Art), until the museum received a $20 million donation from Simona and Jerome A. Chazen (both UW–Madison alumni), and renamed itself the Chazen Museum of Art. The original building housing the museum retains the Elvehjem name. References Other sources External links Madison, Wisconsin neighborhood is named for him complete with eponymous park University of Wisconsin–Madison dedication 1901 births 1962 deaths American biochemists American people of Norwegian descent University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences alumni Leaders of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Recipients of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award People from McFarland, Wisconsin Vitamin researchers 20th-century American academics