Background
Greene, Laurenz was born on May 13, 1883 in Lincoln, Kansas, United States. Son of Ogden Norman and Mary (George) Greene.
Greene, Laurenz was born on May 13, 1883 in Lincoln, Kansas, United States. Son of Ogden Norman and Mary (George) Greene.
Student Kansas Christian College, Lincoln, 1899-1900. Bachelor of Science, Kansas State College, 1906. Master of Science in Agriculture, Iowa State College, 1909.
Doctor of Philisophy, University of California, 1932.
Assistant horticulturist Fort Hays branch experiment station, Hays City, Kansas, 1906. Assistant in horticulture New Mexico A. and M. College, 1906-1907, Iowa State College, 1907-1909. Experimentalist Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, 1909-1917.
Head department horticulture and chief in horticulture, Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station, 1917-1950.
Field service consultant Office of Foreign Agricultural Relation, unites states department of Agriculture since 1950. Head department horticulture Centro Nacional de Agronomia, El Salvador, Central America, 1947-1948, since 1950.
Field consultant in horticulture Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations of United States Department of Agriculture in Ecuador South America and Central American on cacao research, 1949. Director Purdue State Bank.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society Horticultural Science (president 1933), American Society Plant Physiologists, American Society Agronomy, Soil Science Society, Institute Food Technologists, Indiana History Society, Indiana Horticultural Society, Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta, Acacia.
Married Gertrude Mereness, December 27, 1911 (died April.