Miss Widdowson injected herself with solutions of calcium, magnesium and iron and prepared a paper on their effects.

ECONOMIST: Elsie Widdowson

Miss Widdowson was made a Companion of Honour, a rare British accolade, as well as receiving numerous scientific awards.

ECONOMIST: Elsie Widdowson

Miss Widdowson and her partner would sometimes experiment on themselves to judge the effect of certain substances in the body.

ECONOMIST: Elsie Widdowson

John Widdowson has done an outstanding job and we now have players who have grown up locally and are ready for the test of National One rugby.

BBC: Glenn Delaney column

Anything said about Elsie Widdowson's work inevitably touches on McCance's.

ECONOMIST: Elsie Widdowson

Here is item number 18 in the tables: bread, white, large loaf, with its values in protein, fat, calories and chemicals, which so impressed the Widdowson-McCance couple in their quest for a reliable basic diet.

ECONOMIST: Elsie Widdowson