Reminiscences of Elvin Charles Stakman, 1970
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- Name
- Stakman, E. C. (Elvin Charles), 1885-1979 (Interviewee)
- Madow, Pauline (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Elvin Charles Stakman, 1970
- Abstract
- 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; CAMP AIGNS 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
- Collection Name
- Rockefeller Foundation oral history collection
- Subjects
- Plant pathologists; Agricultural education--Developing countries; Plant parasites; Food supply; Food supply--International cooperation; Food supply--Developing countries; Stakman, E. C. (Elvin Charles), 1885-1979; Rockefeller Foundation
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1970
- Note (Biographical)
- Plant pathologist
- Note
- Interviewed by Pauline Madow
- Note (Provenance)
- Elvin Charles Stakman, Gift 1970
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 15211517
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-7r0e-0f14
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.