Agriculture

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Date
1958
Summary
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.
Contributors
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
Publishers
National Educational Television; Indiana University Audio-Visual Center
Genre
Educational
Subject
Agriculture ; Atomic energy.
Collection
National Educational Television
Unit
IUL Moving Image Archive
Language
English
Rights Statement
No Copyright - United States
Physical Description
1 Film (0:29:38); 16mm
Other Identifiers
IULMIA Film Database: 40000003383371; Other: GR00428972; MDPI Barcode: 40000003383371

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