Atoms in Agriculture: Applications of Nuclear Science to Agriculture (Revised)

Nuclear energy is playing a vital role in the life of every man, woman, and child in the United States today. In the years ahead it will affect increasingly all the peoples of the earth. It is essential that all Americans gain an understanding of this vital force if they are to discharge thoughtfully their responsibilities as citizens and if they are to realize fully the myriad benefits that nuclear energy offers them.
The United States Atomic Energy Commission provides this booklet to help you achieve such understanding.
Edward J. Brunenkant, Director Division of Technical Information
UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman James T. Ramey Wilfrid E. Johnson Dr. Theos J. Thompson Dr. Clarence E. Larson
by Thomas S. Osborne
United States Atomic Energy Commission Division of Technical Information Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-60274 1962; 1963(Rev.)
Thomas S. Osborne is in charge of plant-breeding research being conducted by the University of Tennessee’s Agricultural Research Laboratory for the Atomic Energy Commission. He has been in this work since 1953.
But Dr. Osborne is a teacher at heart. Hence when students wrote inquiring about the effects of radiation on seeds, he took great interest in replying. From these replies grew mimeographed literature suggesting experiments for students; then this and other booklets.
Dr. Osborne received his undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University and his doctorate from Washington State University.
by Thomas S. Osborne, Associate Professor of Agronomy, University of Tennessee.
To know what questions to put to Nature—that is 95 per cent of scientific research. —Whitehead