Will Martin Myers

Background

Myers, Will Martin was born on June 11, 1911 in Bancroft, Kansas, United States. Son of Samuel Edwin and Amelia Askew (Woodall) Myers.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Kansas State College, 1932. Master of Science, University of Minnesota, 1934, Doctor of Philosophy, 1936.

Career

Instructor University of Minnesota, 1932-1937, professor, head department agronomy and plant genetics, 1952-1963, dean of Office of International Programs, 1963-1965. Associate geneticist, later geneticist United States Regional Pasture Research Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, 1937-1946, senior geneticist, 1947-1949, head agronomist charge division forage crops and diseases Bureau Plant Industry. Soils and Agriculture Engineering, 1949-1951, director field crops research, 1951-1952.

Head agricultural research branch, agriculture division Natural Resources Section, G-Headquarters, Supreme Commander Allied Powers, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1947.

Professor cytogenetics Pennsylvania State University, 1947-1949. Associate director agricultural sciences Rockefeller Foundation, 1965-1967, vice president, 1967-1970.

Vice chairman organizing committee, chairman of the executive committee, chairman program committee, secretary general 6th International Grassland Congress. Special consultant Rockefeller Foundation, 1959-1960.

Achievements

• Will Martin Myers has been listed as a notable scientist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Society Agronomy (chairman crops division 1947, president 1958). Member Botanical Society American, American Society Naturalists, American Genetic Association, Genetics Society American, American Society Range Management, Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta, Phi Kappa Phi.

Connections

Married Emma Louise Manchester, June 1, 1935. Children: Susan Louise, Mary Jane, James Martin.

Father:

Samuel Edwin Myers

Mother:

Amelia Askew (Woodall) Myers

Spouse:

Emma Louise Manchester

child:

Susan Louise Myers

child:

Mary Jane Myers

child:

James Martin Myers