Bartley, B. G. D. (Basil G. D.)

Biography

Basil George David Bartley was born in New Delhi, India, on February 14, 1927. He received his secondary education at St. Paul's School, Darjeeling, India, and at the age of fifteen passed the Cambridge School Certificate examination in the first grade. In 1943, he entered the Allahabad Agricultural Institute of the University of Allahabad, India, receiving a bachelor of science degree in agriculture in the first division four years later. He continued scientific studies at Iowa State College (later Iowa State University), which awarded him a master of science in 1948 and a doctorate in 1950. Bartley's main interests at the masters and doctoral levels, respectively, were crop breeding and quantitative inheritance in soybeans.

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