Reminiscences of Elvin Charles Stakman, 1970

Biographical Note

Plant pathologist

Scope and Contents

Youth and early education; University of Minnesota: undergraduate, graduate school, and teaching career; Department of Agriculture; barberry eradication program; rust control and other agricultural problems; work in Germany, Mexico, India, Japan, and other countries; effects of World War I, the Depression, and World War II on agriculture; world food and hunger problems; Rockefeller Foundation; CAMPAIGNS AGAINST HUNGER; agricultural science in Russia and other Communist countries; work on numerous scientific boards, commissions, journals; philosophy of education; impressions of prominent plant pathologists and other academic and public figures

Subjects

• Agricultural education--Developing countries.
• Food supply--Developing countries.
• Food supply--International cooperation.
• Food supply.
• Interviews.
• Madow, Pauline, interviewer.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Plant parasites.
• Plant pathologists--Interviews.
• Rockefeller Foundation.
• Stakman, E. C. (Elvin Charles), 1885-1979--Interviews.