Jay Lush

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Jay Laurence Lush (born January 3, 1896 in Shambaugh ( Iowa ), † May 22, 1982 ) was an American geneticist who is considered the founding father of scientific animal breeding research in the USA.

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He was the son of a farmer, studied at Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University ), graduated with an M. Sc in 1918 and received his PhD in genetics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1922 . He then became head of the Texas Agricultural Experimental Station and dealt with experiments on farm animals (beef cattle, dairy cattle, Rambouilett sheep, Angora goats). From 1930 to 1966 he was professor of animal breeding at Iowa State University in Ames and during this time also undertook study visits to Chicago and Copenhagen as well as long trips abroad to Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.

In his work, Lush first examined the rules of inheritance in farm animals. He recognized that almost all the performance of these animals is influenced by many genes and environmental effects and, using statistical methods, developed new breeding methods that took into account the genetic principles and gave all animal breeding of that time a scientific basis. In recent years he has also dealt with the development of effective selection indices in order to gain further experience about the influence of the hereditary share and genetic correlations.

With the book "Animal breeding plans" this approach became known worldwide and led to students and postgraduates from many countries coming to Ames and graduating with an M. Sc or Doctor of Philosophy. Lush was a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a foreign member of the academies for science and agriculture in Sweden, Norway and Italy.

Fonts (selection)

  • Animal Breeding Plans. Ames, Iowa: The Collegiate Press., 1937, 1943, 1945
  • The sense and importance of the inheritance share. 1961, lecture II. Internat. Holiday course in Mariensee, pp. 177–199
  • The Genetics of Populations, Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station, College of Agriculture, Iowa State University, Ames 1994
  • He published over 150 articles

Awards

  • 1946 Morrison Award from the American Society for Animal Husbandry
  • 1956 Honorary Member of the American Society for Animal Breeding
  • 1957 Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor of Agriculture, Iowa State University
  • 1958 Borden Award for research in the field of milk production (awarded by the American Association for Milk Production)
  • 1960 Hermann von Nathusius Gold Medal from the German Society for Zuchtungskunde e. V.
  • 1965 Armor Award for Animal Breeding and Genetics by the American Society for Breeding Science
  • 1965 Gregor Mendel plaque from the Mendel Society, Czechoslovakia
  • 1966 Order of Merit for Science of Italy
  • 1968 National Medal of Science
  • 1979 Wolf Prize in Agricultural Science from the Wolf Foundation (donated by Ricardo Wolf)

Honorary doctorates

  • 1957 Dr. hc of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture
  • 1957 Dr. hc from Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • 1958 Dr. hc from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University Frederiksberg, Denmark,
  • 1964 Dr. hc from Michigan State University in East Lansing, USA
  • 1969 Dr. hc from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • 1970 Dr. hc from Kansas State University in Manhattan, USA
  • 1970 Dr. hc from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, USA
  • 1971 Dr. hc Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1975 Dr. hc from the Agricultural University of Norway
  • in addition honorary doctorates in Uppsala, Copenhagen and Gießen

literature

  • Arthur B. Chapman; Jay Laurence Lush, Jan 3, 1896-1 May 1982. In: National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: Biographical Memoirs, Vol. 57, pp. 276-305.
  • Edwin Lauprecht: Jay L. Lush - holder of the golden Hermann von Nathusius medal of the German. Ges. Für Zücht.kde. In: Züchtungskunde, 32, 1960, H 6, 486-487

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Previous holders of the Hermann von Nathusius Medal of the DGfZ
  2. ↑ Jay Lush's CV in USA
personal data
SURNAME Lush, Jay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lush, Jay Laurence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Shambaugh, Iowa
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1982