Background
Rick, Charles Madeira was born on April 30, 1915 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles Madeira and Miriam Charlotte (Yeager) Rick.
Rick, Charles Madeira was born on April 30, 1915 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles Madeira and Miriam Charlotte (Yeager) Rick.
Bachelor of Science, Pennsylvania State University, 1937; AM, Harvard University, 1938; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1940.
Assistant plant breeder, W. Atlee Burpee Company, Lompoc, California, 1936, 37;
instructor, junior geneticist, University of California, Davis, 1940-1944;
assistant professor, assistant geneticist, University of California, 1944-1949;
associate professor, associate geneticist, University of California, 1949-1955;
professor, geneticist, University of California, since 1955;
chairman coordinating committee, Tomato Genetics Cooperative, 1950-1982;
director, China Market Research Tomato Genetics Resource Center, since 1975;
member genetics study section, National Institutes of Health, 1958-1962;
member, Galapagos International Science Project, 1964;
member genetic biology panel, National Science Foundation, 1971-1972;
member of national plant genetics resources board, Department Agriculture, 1975-1982. General Education Board visiting lecturer North Carolina State University, 1956. Faculty Research lecturer University of California, 1961.
Carnegie visiting professor U. Hawaii, 1963. Visiting professor Universidade São Paulo, Brazil, 1965. Visiting scientist U. P.R., 1968.
Centennial lecturer Ontario Agriculture College U. Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 1974. Adjunct Professor University de Rosario, Argentina, 1980. University lecturer Cornell Univercity, 1987.
Member Plant Breeding Research Forum, 1982-1984.
Fellow California Academy Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (Campbell award 1959), Indian Society Genetics and Plant Breeding (honorary). Member National Academy Sciences, Botanical Society American(Merit award 1976), American Society Horticultural Science (Master of Arts Blake award 1974, Vaughan Research award 1946, Hall of Fame 1998), Massachusetts Horticultural Society (Thomas Roland medal 1983), Society Economics Botany (named Distinguished Economics Botanist 1987), National Council Commercial Plant Breeders (Genetic and Plant Breeding award 1987), American Genetics Association (Frank N. Meyer medal 1982).
Married Martha Elizabeth Overholts, September 3, 1938 (deceased). Children: Susan Charlotte Rick Baldi, John Winfield.