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Elvin Charles Stakman
(17 May 1885 - 22 Jan 1979)
American plant pathologist who pioneered methods to identify and combat diseases of important crops. He worked to improve crop production worldwide.
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Science Quotes by Elvin Charles Stakman (2 quotes)
Find out all you have to buck, and then breed 'em tough.
[About breeding hardier strains of disease-resistant wheat.]
[About breeding hardier strains of disease-resistant wheat.]
— Elvin Charles Stakman
As quoted in 'Milestones', Time magazine (5 Feb 1979), 113.
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.
— Elvin Charles Stakman
To the 116th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York City (26-31 Dec 1949), as quoted in Life magazine (9 Jan 1950), 28, No. 2, 17.
See also:
- 17 May - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Stakman's birth.