Word: shull
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...single event can be said to have touched off the farm revolution, it was the development of hybrid corn. It opened the eyes of farmers and scientists alike to the vast increase that could be made in food production. Following Mendelian genetic principles, Professor George Harrison Shull of the Carnegie Institution of Washington developed the first hybrid corn in 1908. This was more than mere crossing: by generations of inbreeding he got pure strains which when mated yielded an almost explosive yield increase given the name of "hybrid vigor." But Shull's work was commercially valueless; the seed...
Died. Dr. George Harrison Shull, 80, longtime (1915-42) professor of botany and genetics at Princeton University, developer (in a never-ending series of experiments begun in 1905) of hybrid corn (along with Harvard's Edward Murray East, who was experimenting independently at the same time), which has resulted in a 25%-50% increase in corn production per acre; after long illness; in Princeton...
GEORGE H. SHULL...
...FRANKLIN SHULL...
Professor Emeritus George H. Shull, of Princeton, had this to say: "Why did I invest in a perpetual subscription? Believe it or not, I did it because I thought that in this way I could help in the establishment of a type of periodical previously non-existent and which seemed to me to promise the greatest possible contribution to a self-governing democracy...