Field-Of-Study: Plant Sciences

As published in the Foundation’s Annual Report for 1925-26: Ferris, Gordon Floyd: Appointed to accumulate material for the study of certain phases of the insect fauna of Mexico and Central America; tenure, twelve months from July 1, 1925. Born January 2, 1893, at Bayard, Kansas. Education: Stanford University, A.B., 1916, M.A., 1918. Teaching Assistant in

As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1926–27: Eyster, William Henry: Appointed to study the physiology of the chloroplastid pigments, using genetic strains of Zea Mays, which vary in the amounts and proportions of the different chloroplastid pigments from a complete absence of one or more pigments to a full complement of all the pigments,

I received my B.S. degree from the University of California at Davis in 1940, having majored in pomology (fruit tree culture). I went on for my M.S. degree, which I obtained in 1941. That gave me a taste for research. I therefore transferred to the Berkeley campus of the university and began a Ph.D. program