Prominent Agricultural Scientists
- Robert Bakewell (farmer) – first to implement systematic selective breeding of livestock.
- Norman Borlaug – American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate who has been called "the father of the Green Revolution".
- Luther Burbank – American botanist, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career.
- George Washington Carver – American scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor. Carver's reputation is based on his research into and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes, which also aided nutrition for farm families.
- René Dumont – French engineer in agronomy, a sociologist, and an environmental politician.
- Charles Roy Henderson – statistician and a pioneer in animal breeding — the application of quantitative methods for the genetic evaluation of domestic livestock.
- Ronald Fisher – English statistician, evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and geneticist.
- Jay Lush – pioneering animal geneticist who made important contributions to livestock breeding. He is sometimes known as the father of modern scientific animal breeding.
- Gregor Mendel – Austrian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance.
- Louis Pasteur – French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He was best known to the general public for inventing a method to stop milk and wine from causing sickness, a process that came to be called pasteurization.
- M. S. Swaminathan – Indian agricultural scientist. Swaminathan is known as the "Father of the Green Revolution in India", for his leadership and success in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat in India.
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