RARE "Plant Geneticist" Sterling Wortman Signed FDC Dated 1959 For Sale
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RARE "Plant Geneticist" Sterling Wortman Signed FDC Dated 1959:
$279.99
Up for sale a RARE! "Plant Geneticist" Sterling Wortman Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1959. This lot also includes the conveyance letter from Dr. Wortman's assistant.
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Sterling Wortman began
his career with the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) as a plant geneticist Program (MAP). He went on to become a leading
figure in the Foundation's efforts to establish the 1960s and 1970s. Wortman was born in Quinlan,
Oklahoma on April 3, 1923. He earned his B.S. in agronomy from Oklahoma State
University (1943) and Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics from the University
of Minnesota (1950). In 1950, Wortman was hired as a corn breeder in the
Mexican Agricultural Program's corn improvement program. He left the MAP in
1955 to head the Plant Breeding Department at the Pineapple Research Institute
in Honolulu, Hawaii, and returned to the RF in 1960. In the 1960s and 1970s the
Rockefeller and Ford Foundations collaborated in creating several international
agricultural research institutes to carry out MAP's pioneering agricultural
work on a global scale. Wortman played a central role in these efforts. He
helped launch the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the
Philippines, focused on researching and re-engineering the rice plant to
increase rice production, and served as the IRRI's Assistant Director
(1960-1962) and Associate Director (1962-1964). In his 1992 book An
Adventure in Applied Science: A History of the International Rice Research
Institute, IRRI Founding Director Robert F. Chandler, Jr. emphasized that
"Wortman's contribution to the progress of IRRI in those early years
cannot be overestimated." The Foundation's success with IRRI spurred the
development of additional international agricultural institutes and
organizations. After his appointment as the RF's Director for Agricultural
Sciences in 1966, Wortman helped reorganize the International Maize and Wheat
Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico as private corporation. The move
dramatically improved the Center's funding and efficacy. He helped establish
the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in 1971,
which served to mobilize and coordinate public and private funding for
international research centers. And after becoming a RF Vice-President in 1970,
Wortman helped establish the International Agricultural Development Service
(IADS), which worked to strengthen agricultural programs in developing nations.
He served as the President of IADS from 1975 to 1979. Wortman assumed the role
of the Foundation's Acting President after the death of President John H.
Knowles in March 1979. He left his full-time work with the RF after Stanford
University President Richard W. Lyman was appointed President in 1980.
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