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J. Anim Sci. 1989. 67:1653-1656.
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Leon Jacob Cole, 1877–1948: A Brief Biography

Gordon E. Dickerson1 and Arthur B. Chapman2

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Lincoln, NE 68583 and University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706

Abstract

The career of Leon Jacob Cole is a beautiful example of the fortunate matching of an historic opportunity with appropriate talent. The signal contributions of Dr. Cole to the early applications of genetics to animal and plant improvement were well documented 50 years ago by his contemporary peers (H. L. Russell, E. W. Lindstrom and W. C. Coffey, ASAP, 1939) at the presentation of his portrait to the Saddle and Sirloin Gallery by the Society. One of his famous students, Ivar Johansson (1961), later summarized Dr. Cole's accomplishments for readers of the journal Genetics. A brief biography of Dr. Cole also was prepared for the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Supplement II in 1985 (Chapman, 1989). This effort seeks to remind the present generation of animal breeders and their students of "our roots" from the perspective of two former students of Dr. Cole, who are now themselves retired.

Born in 1877 and reared as a "city boy" in Allegany, NY, before the rediscovery of Mendel's Laws, "L.J.'s" early scholarly interests in animals and plants led him to prepare well for his later key contributions to the training of geneticists during the critical embryonic stages of this science, particularly for its applications to improvement of agricultural animals and plants.

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1 Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Anim. Res. Center, ARS, USDA, A218 AnS, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln 68583-0908.

2 Depts. of Meat and Anim. Sci. and of Genetics, Univ. of Wisconsin.






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