Agriculture

Year Published: 1958

Creator: WQED Pittsburgh Dr. Warren F. Witzig Dr. Richard S. Caldecott John W. Ziegler Robert E. Potts Westinghouse Electric Corporation Atomic Energy Commission Edward R. Sanford Frank Stuckman Steve Zorbas

Format: 16mm

Description: Special Guest: DR. RICHARD S. CALDECOTT –Dr. Caldecott is a geneticist with the cereal crops brand of the United States Department of Agriculture and an associate professor in the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics at the University of Minnesota.There is an area of scientific endeavor that will serve to illustrate one important method in which atomic energy is being utilized by agriculture scientist. This area envelopes the science of genetics. Dr. Warren F. Witzig and Dr. Caldecott discuss this science and the use of atomic energy in this area to provide basic information of life and life processes for the use of the applied agriculturalist. Many examples of how radioactivity has helped the agriculturalist are demonstrated in this program.

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