- Thomas Jonathan Burrill
Thomas Jonathan Burrill (
April 25 1839 -April 14 1916 ) was an Americanbotanist who first discovered bacterial causes for plant disease. Thomas Jonathan Burrill: April 25, 1839-April 14, 1916. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Oct., 1916), pp. 269-270]Born in
Pittsfield, Massachusetts , he graduated Illinois State Normal University in 1865. In 1868, he was elected professor of botany and horticulture at University of Illinois and remained there the rest of his career, eventually serving as Vice President in 1882. Smith, Erwin F. (1914). [http://jb.asm.org/cgi/reprint/1/3/ii.pdf In Memoriam: Thomas Jonathan Burrill.] ]References
External links
* [http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/archon/controlcard.php?id=3194 Thomas J. Burrill Papers, 1901-1905;1909-1910]
* [http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/archon/controlcard.php?id=167 Correspondence, 1892, 1894]
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