John E. Hodge, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJohn E. Hodge
American chemist
Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1914
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Kansas, United States
Date of Death: 03-Jan-1996
Profession: chemist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About John E. Hodge
- John Edward Hodge (October 12, 1914 – January 3, 1996) was an African-American chemist, born in Kansas City, Kansas. He gained an A.B.
- degree in 1936 and a master's degree from the University of Kansas in 1940; from 1941 to 1980 he worked at the USDA Northern Regional Research Center in Peoria, Illinois.
- He also taught at Western University (Kansas), in 1972 held a visiting professorship at the University of Campinas in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and in 1984–1985 was an adjunct professor at Bradley University. An article of his: Hodge, J.
- E.
- (1953).
- "Chemistry of browning reactions in model systems." Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 1(15): 928-943 was named a "Citation Classic" by the Science Citation Index in 1979.
- In it he studied the chemistry of non-enzymatic browning reactions in dehydrated foods, such as the Maillard reaction.
- The article included a reaction scheme which is known as the "Hodge Scheme" and is considered to be the Maillard reaction pathway over 50 years later.
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