Lewis Ralph Jones

Lewis Ralph Jones (born Dec. 5, 1864, Brandon, Wis., U.S.—died March 31, 1945, Orlando, Fla.) was a U.S. botanist and agricultural biologist, one of the first and most distinguished of American plant pathologists. Jones studied botany at the University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1889) and afterward left for the University of Vermont to become research botanist at the Agricultural Experiment Station, where he made his first major contribution to plant pathology. He successfully used the French-made...