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Born October 4, 1879 • Illinois
Died November 9, 1938 (aged 59) • Boston • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study corn • nutrient • crop production
Donald Forsha Jones
American agronomist
George Harrison Shull
American botanist
Burbank, Luther
Luther Burbank
American plant breeder
John Torrey
John Torrey
American botanist and chemist
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
American botanist
Bernard Ogilvie Dodge
American botanist
Elvin Charles Stakman
American plant pathologist
Albert Francis Blakeslee
American botanist
John Lorain
American agriculturalist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Hugo de Vries
Dutch botanist and geneticist
Vavilov inspecting citrus trees at Maykop, Russian S.F.S.R., in 1935
Nikolai Vavilov
Russian geneticist
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen
Danish botanist and geneticist
Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg
Austrian botanist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
McClintock, Barbara
Barbara McClintock
American scientist
David Fairchild
David Fairchild
American botanist
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey
American botanist

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