Nationality United States Name Jay Lush Fields Genetics Role Geneticist | Died May 22, 1982 Doctoral advisor Leon J. Cole Known for Quantitative genetics | |
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Born January 3, 1896
Shambaugh, Iowa ( 1896-01-03 ) Alma mater Kansas State Agricultural College (B.Sc.)
Kansas State ( M.Sc.) (1918)
University of Wisconsin–Madison ( Ph.D) (1922) Influences Sewall Wright; Sir R. A. Fisher Books Animal Breeding Plans, Animal Breeding Plans - Scholar's Choice Edition Education Kansas State University (1918), Kansas State University (1916), University of Wisconsin-Madison Awards Wolf Prize in Agriculture, National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences Similar People Sewall Wright, Oscar Kempthorne, Ronald Fisher | ||
Institutions Iowa State University | ||
Jay Laurence Lush | Wikipedia audio article
Jay Laurence Lush (January 3, 1896 – May 22, 1982) was a pioneering animal geneticist who made important contributions to livestock breeding. He is sometimes known as the father of modern scientific animal breeding. Lush received National Medal of Science in 1968 and the Wolf Prize in 1979.
Lush was introduced to mathematics and genetics during his B.Sc. studies of animal husbandry at the Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University). He completed his M.Sc. in 1918 at Kansas State, and his Ph.D. in genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1922).
Lush advocated breeding not based on subjective appearance of the animal, but on quantitative statistics and genetic information. Lush authored a classic book 'Animal Breeding Plans' in 1937 which greatly influenced animal breeding around the world.
From 1930 to 1966, Lush was the Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture at Iowa State University. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1967.
Lush won the Borden Award for research in dairy production from the American Dairy Science Association and both the Armour Award for animal breeding and genetics and the Morrison Award from the American Society of Animal Science. In 1979, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture.