Albert Francis Blakeslee

Albert Francis Blakeslee (born Nov. 9, 1874, Geneseo, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 16, 1954, Northampton, Mass.) was a prominent American botanist and geneticist who achieved world renown for his research on plants. The son of a Methodist minister, Blakeslee was awarded a B.A., cum laude, from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (1896). After three years of teaching mathematics and science in a preparatory school, he entered Harvard University (1899) for graduate work. In 1900 he received his...