Jean Dominique

Jean Dominique

male, deceased (2000)
Jean Léopold Dominique was a noted Haïtian journalist who spoke out against successive dictatorships. He was one of the first people in Haïti to bro...
Norman Borlaug

Norman Borlaug

male, 95 years old
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of...
Trofim Lysenko

Trofim Lysenko

male, deceased (1976)
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was a biologist and agronomist who was dictator of Soviet biology under Joseph Stalin. Lysenko rejected Mendelian...
Aaron Aaronsohn

Aaron Aaronsohn

male, deceased (1919)
Aaron Aaronsohn (1876-May 15, 1919) was a renowned Romanian-born Jewish botanist, traveler, entrepreneur, and Zionist politician.
Jethro Tull

Jethro Tull

male, deceased (1741)
Jethro Tull (born March 1672 in Basildon, Berkshire; died 21 February 1741 in Shalbourne, Berkshire (now Wiltshire)) was an English agricultural...
Shen Kuo

Shen Kuo

male, deceased (1095)
Shen Kuo or Shen Kua (1031–1095 AD) was a polymath Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD). Excelling in many fields of s...
Wang Zhen

Wang Zhen

male
Wáng Zhēn was an official of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 AD) of China. He is credited with the invention of the first wooden movable type pr...
Gurdev Khush

Gurdev Khush

male, 74 years old
Dr. Gurdev Singh Khush is an Indian agronomist. Along with his mentor, Dr. Henry Beachell, he received the 1996 World Food Prize for their...
Joseph Decaisne

Joseph Decaisne

male, deceased (1882)
Joseph Decaisne was a French botanist and agronomist. Although he was born in Brussels, Belgium, he exercised his activity exclusively in Paris. He...
Xu Guangqi

Xu Guangqi

male, deceased (1633)
Xu Guangqi (1562-1633) was a Chinese bureaucrat, agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mathematician of the Ming Dynasty.