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George Harrison Shull
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Born April 15, 1874 • Ohio
Died September 28, 1954 (aged 80) • Princeton • New Jersey
Subjects Of Study corn
John Lorain
American agriculturalist
John Bartram
American naturalist
Edward Murray East
American scientist
Donald Forsha Jones
American agronomist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Hugo de Vries
Dutch botanist and geneticist
McClintock, Barbara
Barbara McClintock
American scientist
Burbank, Luther
Luther Burbank
American plant breeder
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist
Sewall Wright, 1965
Sewall Wright
American geneticist
Albert Francis Blakeslee
American botanist
Edith Rebecca Saunders
British botanist and geneticist
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
British geneticist and statistician
Vavilov inspecting citrus trees at Maykop, Russian S.F.S.R., in 1935
Nikolai Vavilov
Russian geneticist
Kim Soon-Kwon
South Korean agricultural scientist
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen
Danish botanist and geneticist
Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg
Austrian botanist
Carl Erich Correns
German botanist
Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter
German botanist

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