Norman Borlaug

Norman Borlaug

male, 95 years old
Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Congressional Gold Medal recipient, Congressional Gold Medal, Mexican Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences…plantpathology, plant, pathology
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of...
Harry Marshall Ward

Harry Marshall Ward

male, deceased (1906)
Botanist, Fellow of the Royal Society, British, ceylon, Physiologist, plant physiology…Plant Pathologist, plantpathology
Harry Marshall Ward was a British botanist. Born in Hereford, England, Ward was educated at Lincoln Cathedral school. from c. 1864. He went on to...
Miles Joseph Berkeley

Miles Joseph Berkeley

male, deceased (1889)
tomato, coffee, pear, onion, British, Oidium tuckeri…plantpathology
Miles Joseph Berkeley was an English botanist. Berkeley was born at Biggin Hall, Northamptonshire, and educated at Rugby School and Christ's...
Theodor O. Diener

Theodor O. Diener

male
Botanist, American, National Medal of Science, Plant Pathologist, National Medal of Science recipient, Biologist…plantpathology
Theodor O. Diener is an American plant pathologist and was the first in the field to describe viroids. In 1971 he showed that the causative agent...

Elvin C. Stakman

male, deceased (1979)
Botanist, Mycologist, phytopathology, American, Nobel Peace Prize, Elvin Charles Stakman…plantpathology
Elvin Charles Stakman (May 17 1885-January 22 1979) was an American plant pathologist who was a pioneer of methods of identifying and combatting...
G. H. Cunningham

G. H. Cunningham

male, deceased (1962)
Fellow of the Royal Society, Biologist, Mycologist, taxonomy, gallipoli, Horticulturist…Plant Pathologist, plantpathology
George Herriot Cunningham (27 August 1892-18 July 1962) C.B.E., F.R.S., was the first New Zealand-based mycologist and plant pathologist. In 1936...

Edwin John Butler

male, deceased (1943)
Botanist, Fellow of the Royal Society, Mycologist, British, panama, trinidad…Plant Pathologist, plantpathology
Edwin John Butler (1874 in Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland, - 1943) was a plant pathologist in India and England, and director of the Imperial...

Fu-Kuen Lin

male
food and drug administration, microbiologist, gene, American, phytopathology, University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign…plantpathology
Fu-Kuen Lin (b. 1941 in Keelung, Taiwan) is an award winning fungi physiologist, nephrologist and hemotologist. Lin received his B.S. from National...

Joan Dingley

female
Biologist, Hypocreales, Dr Joan Dingley, taxonomic mycology, Auckland Regional Botanic Gardens, JM Dingley Microbiology Laboratory…plantpathology
Dr Joan Dingley is one of the pioneer women of New Zealand science. She worked for the DSIR Plant Diseases Division from 1941 to 1976, becoming the...

Desmond Herbert

male, deceased (1976)
Botanist, university of queensland, Botanists active in Australia, cmg, University of Western Australia, University of Melbourne…plantpathology
Desmond Andrew Herbert CMG (17 June 1898–8 September 1976) was an Australian botanist. The son of a fruit-grower, Herbert was born in Diamond Cr...