George Harrison Shull

George Harrison Shull

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birth_date = April 15, 1874
birth_place = Clark Co., Ohio,
death_date = September 28, 1954
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nationality = American
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field = genetics
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George Harrison Shull (April 15, 1874 - September 28, 1954) was an eminent American plant geneticist. He was born in Clark Co., Ohio, graduated from Antioch College in 1901 and from the University of Chicago (Ph.D.) in 1904, served as botanical expert to the United States Bureau of Plant Industry in 1903-04, and thenceforth was a botanical investigator of the Carnegie Institution at the Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Springs Harbor, N. Y., giving special attention to the results of Luther Burbank's work. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Encyclopedia] Shull played an important role in the development of hybrid corn which had great impact upon global agriculture. He described heterosis in maize in 1908 and made a number of other key discoveries in emerging field of genetics. Shull was the founder of the scientific journal "Genetics".

He was called George in distinction from his son Harrison Shull (1923-2003), also a distinguished scientist, specializing in the quantum mechanics of small-molecule electronic spectra. [http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/hshull.pdf]

References

*Citation
id = PMID:17810906
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17810906
last=Shull
first=
publication-date=1907 May 17
year=1907
title=THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LATENT CHARACTERS.
volume=25
issue=646
periodical=Science
pages=792-794
doi = 10.1126/science.25.646.792
*Citation
id = PMID:17828973
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17828973
last=Shull
first=
publication-date=1907 May 24
year=1907
title=SOME LATENT CHARACTERS OF A WHITE BEAN.
volume=25
issue=647
periodical=Science
pages=828-832
doi = 10.1126/science.25.647.828-b
*Citation
id = PMID:17800109
url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17800109
last=Shull
first=
publication-date=1946 May 3
year=1946
title=Hybrid Seed Corn.
volume=103
issue=2679
periodical=Science
pages=547-550
doi = 10.1126/science.103.2679.547
*Smocovitis, V.B. Shull, George Harrison. "American National Biography Online". 2000
*Nina Fedoroff and Nancy Marie Brown. "Mendel in the Kitchen". Joseph Henry Press, Washington, D.C. 2004, pages 57-62.

External links

* [http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/hshull.pdf Biographical Memoir] of Harrison Shull, George's son


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