Alina Surmacka-Szczesniak

Alina Surmacka Szcześniak is a Polish-born, American food scientist best known for her contributions to food texture. In 2002, she received the plaque of Honorary President of the International Federation of Surveyors on behalf of her father, Wladysław Surmacki, who was to be President in 1942 but did not survive the war. Szcześniak attended Bryn Mawr College as a foreign student after the Second World War, which she spent in her native Poland. Szcześniak earned her graduate degree in food technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then worked for General Foods in the field of food chemistry, focusing on texture studies. She worked at General Foods from 1952 until her 1986 retirement, where she retired as a principal...