Charles Burnham (geneticist)
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Charles Burnham was an American plant geneticist who played a critical role in developing a blight resistant strain of the American chestnut.[1]
Burnham received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1929. He was a National Research Fellow at Cornell, Harvard, and the California Institute of Technology from 1929 to 1938, and a professor at the University of Minnesota from 1938 to 1972. Burnham died in 1995.[2]
Burnham cofounded The American Chestnut Foundation in 1983.[3]
A letter Burnham wrote in 1983 shows his ongoing conversation with Barbara McClintock.[4]
References
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
