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Honorary Fellows of the American Society of Animal Science 1988

Elbert J. Turman was born January 26, 1924 in Granite, Oklahoma and was raised on a livestock, cotton and grain farm. After service in the army during World War II, he completed his B.S. degree in Animal Husbandry at Oklahoma State University in 1949 and obtained his M.S. (1950) and Ph.D. (1953) degrees in Reproductive Physiology from Purdue University. He served as an Instructor and Assistant Professor at Purdue from 1950 to 1955. In 1955, Dr. Turman joined the faculty of the Animal Science Department at Oklahoma State University where he served as a distinguished faculty member until his retirement in 1987.

Dr. Turman's research has been characterized by innovation, relevance and finding solutions to current problems in the livestock industry. His pioneering studies in the 1950s on the effects of growth hormone on barrows have since been confirmed numerous times. His landmark studies in the 1960s developed methods for and identified the problems associated with induced superovulation and superfetation in beef cattle.