Yeshajahu Pomeranz (1922–1995) was an Israeli-American food scientist.[1]
Pomeranz was born on 28 November 1922 in Poland to Rysia (née Bildner) and Dovid Pomeranz.[1] He received bachelor's degrees from the Israel Institute of Technology in chemistry and chemical engineering in 1944 and 1945.[2] He obtained a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of London, and a doctorate in grain science and milling from Kansas State University.[1]
In 1982 he received a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to conduct research in West Germany.[3] He was editor-in-chief of Cereal Chemistry from 1985 to 1992.[4]
Pomeranz married an elementary school teacher from Israel and had two sons.[1][5] He died of brain cancer on 21 July 1995, aged 72.[4]