Background
Bradfield, Richard was born on April 20, 1896 in West Jefferson, Ohio, United States. Son of Bayard Taylor and Martha Anderson (Truitt) Bradfield.
Bradfield, Richard was born on April 20, 1896 in West Jefferson, Ohio, United States. Son of Bayard Taylor and Martha Anderson (Truitt) Bradfield.
AB, Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio, 1917. Doctor of Science, Otterbein College, 1941. Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1922.
Summer student, University Wisconsin, 1923.
Teacher science and mathematics, Fairfield Township High School, Madison County, Ohio., 1917-1918;
assistant to associate professor soils, U. Missouri, 1920-1930;
professor soils, Ohio State University, 1930-1937;
professor soil technical, Cornell Univercity, 1937-1961;
professor emeritus, Cornell Univercity, from 1961;
head department agronomy, Cornell Univercity, 1937-1955. Guggenheim fellow Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physikalishe und Electrochemie, Berlin, Dahlem, 1927-1928. Director agriculture in Far East for Rockefeller Foundation, 1955-1957, trustee, 1957-1961, special consultant, since 1962.
Consultant soil scientist USDA, 1941-1952. United States delegate to 3d International Congress of Soil Science, Oxford, England, 1935. Member Rockefeller Foundation Mexican Agricultural Commission, 1941-1955.
Advisor United States delegate, 3d Inter-American Conference on Agriculture, Caracas, 1945. F.A.O. Committee on Agricultural Production, 1946, 47. Faculty representative, board of trustees Cornell Univercity, 1944-1948.
Member of committee on plant and crop ecology National Research Council, 1950-1953. Member National Soil Research Committee, 1950-1952. Member visiting committee biology department BrookhavenNat.
Laboratory, 1951-1953. Member United States Agricultural Mission to United Kingdom, 1946. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice president, chairman of the section Ohio 1941), American Society Agronomy (vice president 1941, president 1942).
Member Soil Science American (president 1937), International Society SoilSci. (president), Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta, Rotary.
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Married Ethel May Hill, June 21, 1923. 1 child, Richard; 2d married Hannah Amelia Stillman, August 6, 1926. Children: Robert Browning, Stillman, David Maurice, Patricia Jane, James Worthington.