Vigfus Asmundson papers, 1932-1966.

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Vigfus Asmundson papers, 1932-1966.

The collection contains two project files related to Asmundson's research with poultry growth and reproduction in turkeys, as well as reprints of a number of his articles

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University of California, Davis. Library. Dept. of Special Collections.

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Asmundson, V. S. (Vigfus Samundur), 1895-1974

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Vigfus Samundur Asmundson was born on September 24, 1895 in Reykjavik, Iceland. He received a B.S. from the University of Saskatchewan (1918), an M.S. from Cornell University (1920), and a Ph.D in Genetics and Poultry Husbandry from the University of Wisconsin (1930). Asmundson joined the staff of the Poultry Husbandry Department at the University of British Columbia in 1920 and served there until 1932. He then came to the University of California at Berkeley as an associate in poultry husbandry...