Harold Dadford West (July 16, 1904 – March 5, 1974) was an American biochemist who was the first to synthesize threonine. Born in New Jersey, his father George, was from Washington D.C. and his mother, Mary, was from Rhode Island. He worked at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee as a teacher. He was married to Jessie Juanita West and had at least two children, Edna (named after his older sister) and Harold West Jr. He died in 1974 in Nashville, Tennessee.

References

• Cohen, S G (1998), "Asthma among the famous. Harold D. West (1904-1974), American medical scientist and educator.", Allergy and Asthma Proceedings, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 233–6, PMID 9727157
• Cobb, W M (1976), "Harold Dadford West, Ph.D., LL.D.: a good man and true.", Journal of the National Medical Association (published Jul 1976), vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 269–75, PMC 2609553, PMID 787546

See also

• threonine