It has taken 10,000 years of domestication trial and error to create the huge variety of tomatoes found in today’s farmers markets. Until the pioneering work by Esther van der Knaap, associate professor of horticulture and cr
Stillman Robinson (1838-1910) led a varied and interesting life. He began his career as an apprentice machinist in order to earn money for college, then made the 625 mile journey from his home in Vermont to the University of
In 1981, while being awarded the Georg Charles de Havesy Nuclear Pioneer award, the presenter dubbed William Myers (1908-1988) ‘the godfather of the cyclotron.’ His road to that honorific began much earlier – in 1940, just a year
Upon completion of his PhD in psychology, Paul Fitts (1912-1965) joined the military, where he rose to the rank Lieutenant Colonel and became the first director of the Psychology Branch of the Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory
Edgar Dale (1900-1985) was internationally renowned for his most famous breakthrough — the Cone of Experience — and its theory of the relationship between multimedia elements and the retention of memory through users.
Martha King (1918-2007) was a leading figure in writing instruction, literacy research and the development and study of informal classrooms within the College of Education at Ohio State. In the 1970’s, Dr. King and Dr.