Charles Thom papers, 1913-1955.

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The United States Department of Agriculture was established in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln and was elevated to a Cabinet level organization by President Grover Cleveland in 1889. The Department of Agriculture assists farmers and producers of food as well as creating policies and programs related to food distribution and nutrition information. The United States Department of Agriculture controls a number of regional offices through out the continential United States and its territories....

Harper, R. A. (Robert Almer), 1862-1946

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Robert Almer Harper (1862-1946) served as Chief of the Board of Scientific Directors of the New York Botanical Garden during the 1920's. From 1911 to 1930 he held the position of Torrey Professor of Botany at Columbia University. From the description of Robert Almer Harper papers 1910-1946. (New York Botanical Garden). WorldCat record id: 47060197 From the description of Robert Almer Harper papers, 1910-1946. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 1554623...

Blakeslee, Albert Francis, 1874-1954

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Albert Francis Blakeslee was a geneticist and botanist and was director of Smith College Genetics Experiment Station (1943-1954). From the description of Papers, 1904-1954. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 154298036 American botanist educated at Wesleyan (A.B. 1896) and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1900). Instructor in Botany at Harvard 1906-1907; Professor of Botany at Connecticut Agricultural College, 1907-1914, Professor of Botany and Genetics, 1...

Thom, Charles, 1872-1956

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Charles Thom (1872-1956) worked in various capacities for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for over 40 years. In 1904, he began working for the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, where he remained as mycologist in charge of cheese investigations until 1913. By 1927 he was head of the Division of Soil Microbiology of Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. After his retirement, he carried out inspections for the War Food Administration. Throughout his career, Thom was involved in import...

Waksman, Selman A. (Selman Abraham), 1888-1973

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Microbiologist. From the description of Selman A. Waksman papers, 1915-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980240 Selman Abraham Waksman was born in Priluka, Russia, on July 22, 1888 to the merchant Jacob Waksman and his wife Fradia (London). Waksman graduated from the Fifth Gymnasium in Odessa, Russia, and came to the United States in 1910. He entered Rutgers College in 1911, where he worked under another Russian emigré, Dr. Jacob G. Lipman, whose primary r...

Raper, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Bryan), 1908-

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Kenneth Bryan Raper (1908-1987) was a mycologist and microbiologist. He was an authority on the medical and industrial applications of fungi of the genera Aspergillus and Penicillium and on the life history and taxonomy of the Dictyosteliaceae. He worked with the USDA Bureau of Chemistry and Soils (1929-1936) and Bureau of Plant Industry (1936-1940) where he collaborated with Charles Thom. He was microbiologist at the USDA Northern Regional Research Laboratory in Peoria, IL (1940-1953. He was Pr...

Dodge, Bernard O. (Bernard Ogilvie), 1872-1960

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Bernard Ogilvie Dodge (1872-1960) was a mycologist who advanced the science of genetics through research on Neurospora. George Beadle and Edward Tatum won the Nobel Prize in 1958 on research in biochemical genetics based on Dodge's Neurospora findings. He was a plant pathologist at The New York Botanical Garden from 1928-1947. He was associate editor of Mycologia (1923-1932), editor of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1932-1940), Vice President (1934) and President(1935) of the Mycolog...

Raistrick, Harold, 1890-1971

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