Introductory material
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United States Atomic Energy Commission Division of Technical Information Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-60274 1962; 1963(Rev.)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thomas S. Osborne is in charge of plant-breeding research being conducted by the University of Tennessee’s Agricultural Research Laboratory for the Atomic Energy Commission. He has been in this work since 1953.
But Dr. Osborne is a teacher at heart. Hence when students wrote inquiring about the effects of radiation on seeds, he took great interest in replying. From these replies grew mimeographed literature suggesting experiments for students; then this and other booklets.
Dr. Osborne received his undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University and his doctorate from Washington State University.
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