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Adrian Morris Srb
4 Mar 1917 – 24 May 1997
| Birth | 4 Mar 1917 |
| Death | 24 May 1997 |
| Cemetery | Bohemian National Cemetery Dodge , Dodge County , Nebraska , USA |
| Added by | Luckie and PeeWee1961 Family on 10 Nov 2010 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61420330 |
Bio
There is more information on the internet about Adrian Srb. The following is from GUIDE TO THE ADRIAN M. SRB PAPERS Adrian Srb earned a bachelor's degree in English literature and a master's degree in agronomy from the University of Nebraska. He then earned a doctorate in biology in 1937 from Stanford University, where he taught until coming to Cornell in 1947 as an associate professor of plant breeding. He wrote numerous articles and papers on the genetics, physiology, and development of fungi, including the bread mold Neurospora and baker's yeast. At Cornell, he taught General Genetics, and authored the textbook General Genetics. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1941, and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1968. Born in 1917, Adrian Srb died in 1997. ________ George Beadle received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958. Both George Beadle and Adrian Srb were raised 50 plus miles from each other in eastern Nebraska. Per Beadle and Neurospora, Some Recollections Adrian M. Srb's recollection. In I941 when I came to Stanford to do graduate study with Beadle, I had assumed that I would work with Drosophila, possible on eye-pigment system... _______ There are pictures of Adrian as a youth in Nebraska listed under his mother Viola Morris Srb. Adrian Srb's wife was Jozetta. Children: Rosalind, Katherine, and Jerome.
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