Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf
Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf (born in Atchison, Kansas on July 20, 1899; died July 22, 1989) was an American botanist and agronomist. His father was a Prussian immigrant and his mother was also German. He studied at Kansas State University when it was still the "Kansas State Agricultural College."[1] After graduating he furthered his studies at Harvard University. He is noted for studying the origins and hybridization of maize. Hence he co-wrote the book The Origin of Indian Corn and Its Relatives with Robert G. Reeves. They worked on a "Tripartite theory" of origin.[2]
References
- ^ Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 135, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 469-472
- ^ A Lifetime in the Quest for the Origins of Corn* by Surinder M. Seghal" in Maize Genetics and Breeding in the 20th Century edited by Peter A. Peterson, Angelo Bianchi
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Mangelsd.
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