M. S. Swaminathan

M. S. Swaminathan

male, 84 years old
Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is an Indian agriculture scientist, born August 7, 1925, in Kumbakonam, Tamilnadu, The second of four sons of a...
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...
Justus von Liebig

Justus von Liebig

male, deceased (1873)
Justus von Liebig (May 12, 1803 - April 18, 1873) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and...
Eliot Coleman

Eliot Coleman

male, 70 years old
Eliot Coleman (1938-) is an American farmer, author, agricultural researcher and educator, and a proponent of organic farming. His 1989 book, "The...
John Zerzan

John Zerzan

male, 66 years old
John Zerzan (born 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works criticise (agricultural) civilization as...
Yuan Longping

Yuan Longping

male, 79 years old
Yuan Longping is a Chinese agricultural scientist and educator, known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s. His "hybrid...
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...
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...
Vladimiro Montesinos

Vladimiro Montesinos

male, 64 years old
Vladimiro Lenin Montesinos Torres (born May 20, 1945) was the long-standing head of Peru's intelligence service, Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional...

Paul Shepard

male
Paul Howe Shepard, Jr. (b. 1926, d. 1996) is an American environmentalist and and author best known for introducing the pleistocene paradigm to...