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George Harrison Shull
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For his work on maize, Shull was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1948.WEB, Public Welfare Award,weblink National Academy of Sciences, 14 February 2011, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110604024100weblink">weblink 4 June 2011, He was also elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.WEB, APS Member History,weblink 2023-10-05, search.amphilsoc.org,
He also described heterosis in maize in 1908 (the term heterosis was coined by Shull in 1914) and made a number of other key discoveries in the emerging field of genetics. Shull was the founder of the scientific journal Genetics.He was called George in distinction from his son Harrison Shull (1923â2003), also a distinguished scientist, specializing in the quantum mechanics of small-molecule electronic spectra.BOOK, McClure, Donald, Kasha, Michael,weblink Harrison Shull, Biographical Memoirs, 2006, 87, National Academy of Sciences Press, 332â398, 10.17226/11522, 978-0-309-09579-2, , Richard R.
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, The Economics of Invention: A Survey of Literature
, The Journal of Business
, 32
, 2
, 101â127
, The University of Chicago Press
, Chicago
, April 1959
,
, 10.1086/294247,
,
For his work on maize, Shull was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1948.WEB, Public Welfare Award,weblink National Academy of Sciences, 14 February 2011, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110604024100weblink">weblink 4 June 2011, He was also elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.WEB, APS Member History,weblink 2023-10-05, search.amphilsoc.org,
Work with Luther Burbank
Shull worked with Luther Burbank from 1906 to 1914 in an attempt to publish Burbank's plant work on the behalf of the Carnegie Institution. Ultimately unable to get Burbank's full cooperation, and finding that in the Luther Burbank Press's 1914 publication Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries, Their Practical Application "considerable sections are almost word for word the same as my ... manuscript," Shull never published his work.BOOK, A Gardner Touched with Genius, The Life of Luther Burbank, Peter, Dreyer, University of California Press, 1985, 143â197,Personal life
Shull married Ella Amanda Hollar in July 1906. A daughter, Elizabeth Ellen, born May 8, 1907, did not survive her birth. Ella died two weeks later.BOOK, A Gardner Touched with Genius, The Life of Luther Burbank, Peter, Dreyer, University of California Press, 1985, 143, All are buried in Santa Rosa, California, in the Odd Fellows Lawn Cemetery. Shull married Mary Julia Nicholl on August 26, 1909.BOOK, A Gardner Touched with Genius, The Life of Luther Burbank, Peter, Dreyer, University of California Press, 1985, 179, He and his second wife had six children (John Shull, Georgia Shull Vandersloot, Frederick Shull, David Shull, Barbara Shull Miller, and Harrison Shull.)Death
Shull died in Princeton on September 28, 1954. His cremains were buried in Santa Rosa, California where his first wife was buried. His second wife's remains were also buried there twelve years later.BOOK, A Gardner Touched with Genius, The Life of Luther Burbank, Peter, Dreyer, University of California Press, 1985, 197, Santa Rosa Memorial Park map Lot #52{{botanist|Shull|Shull, George Harrison}}References
{{Reflist}}- NEWS, 17810906, Shull, May 17, 1907, 1907, THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LATENT CHARACTERS, 25, 646
- NEWS, 17828973, Shull, May 24, 1907, 1907, SOME LATENT CHARACTERS OF A WHITE BEAN, 25, 647
- NEWS, 17800109, Shull, May 3, 1946, 1946, Hybrid Seed Corn, 103, 2679
- Smocovitis, V.B. Shull, George Harrison. American National Biography Online. 2000
- Nina Fedoroff and Nancy Marie Brown. Mendel in the Kitchen. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, D.C. 2004, pages 57â62.
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