Researching George Shull
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 5 people with the Shull surname? In that year Shull was ranked number 3574 for popularity in the UK. |
The name George means "A Tiller of the Soil or a Farmer" and is of Greek origin.
Records of George Shull on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for George Shull and the Shull Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Shull Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Shull family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 2 people with the Shull surname in the UK? Shull is now ranked number 4039 for popularity in the UK. |
Shull Family History Databases
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Shull Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 12153 people with the Shull surname in the USA? Shull is ranked number 153 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called George Shull
George Harrison Shull
George Harrison Shull (April 15, 1874 – September 28, 1954) was an eminent American plant geneticist and the younger brother of botanical illustrator and plant breeder J. Marion Shull. He was born on a farm in Clark County, Ohio, graduated from Antioch College in 1901 and from the University of Chicago (Ph.D.) in 1904, served as botanical expert to the Bureau of Plant Industry in 1903-04, and thenceforth was a botanical investigator of the Carnegie Institution at the Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., giving special attention to the results of Luther Burbank's work.
Shull played an important role in the development of hybrid maize (in the USA, popularly 'corn') which had great impact upon global agriculture. As a geneticist, Shull worked with maize plants. He was interested in pure breeds not for their economic value but for his experiments in genetics. He produced maize breeds that bred true and then crossed these strains. The hybrid offspring of the sickly pure breeds were vigorous and predictable. In short, an ideal economic maize resulted from a project motivated purely to advance science. For his work on maize, Shull was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1948.
He also described heterosis in maize in 1908 (the term heterosis was coined by Shull in 1914) and made a number of other key discoveries in the emerging field of genetics. Shull was the founder of the scientific journal Genetics.
He was called George in distinction from his son Harrison Shull (1923–2003), also a distinguished scientist, specializing in the quantum mechanics of small-molecule electronic spectra.
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