F. Wolfgang Schnell
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- PhD Agricultural Science University of California, Davis
- Masters Crop Science University of California, Davis
- Bachelors Agricultural Science University of California, Davis
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, F. Wolfgang Schnell was a German professor of applied genetics and plant breeding. He belonged to the most prominent scientists in his field during the second half of the 20th century. Curriculum vitae F. Wolfgang Schnell attended high school in Celle, Halle, and Leipzig. After having passed the final examinations in 1931 he served his apprenticeship in agriculture on a farm near Hamburg . Thereafter he studied agricultural sciences in Berlin, Munich, and Göttingen . Military service , the last part of the war as SS-Hauptsturmführer in the Waffen-SS, he became commander of the schwere SS-Artillerie Abteilung 503, attached to the III. SS-Panzer Korps. and his captivity with automatic arrest for SS-Soldiers/Officers lasted to 1948 interrupted his scientific career for almost ten years. In 1949 he received a doctoral degree in agricultural economics at the University of Göttingen. He then changed the subject and attended a two-year training course in plant breeding at the Max-Planck-Institute in Voldagsen . In 1952 he got an appointment at an MPIZ branch station in Scharnhorst close to Hannover. There he was responsible for the cross-pollinated cereals maize and rye . He focussed upon the general principles of plant breeding methodology and the genetic foundations of heterosis. In 1958 he spent six months at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh and visited several other leading US universities. These visits greatly stimulated his research since he became acquainted with cutting edge research in statistics, quantitative genetics, and breeding methodology. Five years later, he earned his Habilitation degree at the University of Göttingen, qualifying him to work as a university professor. In the same year he was appointed full professor and director of the newly established Institute of Plant Breeding at the University of Hohenheim . There he headed the Chair of Applied Genetics and Plant Breeding until his retirement in 1981. During most of this time he also acted as director, later as a major scientific advisor, of the Hohenheim State Plant Breeding Institute .
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