# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katherine-bitting
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:46:30.569Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katherine-bitting"
name: "Katherine Bitting"
slug: "katherine-bitting"
description: "Katherine Golden Bitting was a food chemist for the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Canners Association. She was a prolific author on the topic of food preservation. To facilitate her investigations, as the Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress (1940) states, she collected \"materials on the sources, preparation, and consumption of foods, their chemistry, bacteriology, preservations, etc., from earliest times to the present day.\" She and her husband, Arvril Bitting, donated a significant collection of materials related to cookery to the Library of Congress. The Bitting Collection containing numerous English and American publications on food preparation from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and a sampling of notable French, German, and Italian works. Many modern food safety practices and techniques result directly from research conducted by the couple."
tagline: "American bacteriologist and food scientist (1869-1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Katherine_Golden_Bitting_1895_(cropped).png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1869-04-29"
deathDate: "1937-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.60486
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump