George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

male, deceased (1943) (Alabama)
scientist, botany, slave, tuskegee university, slavery, American…croprotation
George Washington Carver saved the South from an economic crisis and possible famine by inventing more than three hundred uses for the peanut, over...
Olivier de Serres

Olivier de Serres

male, deceased (1619)
Théâtre d'Agriculture, Soil scientist, writer, servant of Henri IV, Calvinist nobleman, seigneur de pradel…croprotation
Olivier de Serres was a French author and soil scientist whose "Théâtre d'Agriculture" was the text book of French agriculture in the 1600s.. The wo...
Andrey Bolotov

Andrey Bolotov

male, deceased (1833)
Biologist, Russian, journalist, croprotation, forestry, tula
Andrey Timofeyevich Bolotov was the most distinguished Russian agriculturist of the 18th century. Bolotov was born and spent most of his adult life...

Max Fresca

male, deceased (1919)
German, O-yatoi gaikokujin, land reclamation, croprotation, fertilizer, Meiji government
Max Fesca (1846 – 1917 was a German specialist in agriculture and agrochemistry, hired by the Meiji government of Japan as a o-yatoi gaikokujin fo...