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Liberty Hyde Bailey (March 15, 1858 – December 25, 1954) was an American horticulturist and reformer of rural life. He was cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science . [ 1 ] : 10–15 As an energetic reformer during the Progressive Era , he was instrumental in starting agricultural extension services, the 4-H movement, the ...
In 1910, Liberty Hyde Bailey, the Dean of Cornell's Agriculture College, succeeded in having what remained of the Forestry College transferred to his school. At his request, in 1911, the legislature appropriated $100,000 to construct a building to house the new Forestry Department on the Cornell campus, which Cornell later named Fernow Hall .
Ethel Zoe Bailey was born on November 17, 1889 [1] to her mother and father, botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey. [2] She graduated from Smith College in 1911 with her bachelor's degree in zoology, [2] and afterward worked at Cornell University alongside her father, editing several of his publications, including Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture and Manual of Cultivated Plants.
At Cornell, he became a student of the renowned botanist/ horticulturalist Liberty Hyde Bailey, he then received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in botany in 1939. [2] [3] Previously in 1935, Liberty Bailey had given his herbarium (consisting of 125,000 sheets), a building and his library of books (consisting over 3,000 books) to Cornell ...
Given its proximity to Cornell University, the cemetery includes a number of significant figures from the university's history, including members of the Cornell family, and the graves of faculty members. Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954), American horticulturalist and designer; Ethel Zoe Bailey (1889–1983), American botanist and curator
In 1910, Liberty Hyde Bailey, the Dean of Cornell's Agriculture College, succeeded in having what remained of the Forestry College transferred to his school. At his request, in 1911, the legislature appropriated $100,000 to construct a building to house the new Forestry Department on the Cornell campus, which Cornell later named Fernow Hall ...
While still working on his doctoral research, Whetzel was hired by Liberty Hyde Bailey to do extension work for Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. [2] In 1906, Whetzel was appointed assistant professor of botany, and in 1907, he became the head professor of the newly created Department of Plant Pathology. [2]
André Tridon Jagendorf (October 21, 1926 – March 13, 2017) was an American Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus in the Section of Plant Biology [1] [2] [3] at Cornell University who is notable for providing direct evidence that chloroplasts synthesize adenosine triphosphate (ATP) using the chemiosmotic mechanism proposed by Peter Mitchell.