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Luther Burbank
Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank primarily worked with fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. He developed a spineless cactus and the plumcot.
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science · American botanist and horticulturist (1849–1926) · horticulturist · geneticist · botanist · gardener · academic · non-fiction writer · inventor · eugenicist · biologist · also Luther Burbank, Burbank
Born 7 March 1849 · Died 11 April 1926 · Q333419
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If anything happens to me, you will have to dispose of the business and the work, because you can't go on with it. There aren't a dozen organizations in the world that are equipped to go forward with it; of them all, there is really only one I think of that could make the most of it.
2026· 2 entries
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2025· 1 entry
Dollars) and used the money to travel to Santa Rosa, California, in 1875
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2007· 1 entry
Published “The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission” in Reviews of Geophysics — cited 6,886 times.
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1986).
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Burbank was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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1933· 1 entry
Another important breeding technique, cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS), developed in maize, was described by Marcus Morton Rhoades
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1931· 2 entries
Sold the flowers, vegetables and seeds to Burpee Seed Co
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While visiting San Francisco, Frida Kahlo painted a portrait of Burbank emerging as a tree from his interred corpse
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1927· 1 entry
To take the material they wanted from Burbank's properties
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1926· 4 entries
Died 1926-04-11.
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Aged 77, and is buried near the greenhouse at the Luther Burbank Home and Gardens
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When he answered questions about his deepest beliefs by a reporter from the San Francisco Bulletin with the following statement:
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“If anything happens to me, you will have to dispose of the business and the work, because you can't go on with it. There aren't a dozen organizations in the world that are equipped to go forward with it; of them all, there is really only one I think of that could make the most of it.”
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1924· 1 entry
Burbank wrote a letter endorsing the "Yogoda" training system of Paramahansa Yogananda as a superior alternative to what he considered narrowly intellectual education offered by most schools
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1908· 1 entry
George Harrison Shull described heterosis, also known as hybrid vigor
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1907· 1 entry
Burbank published an "essay on childrearing", called The Training of the Human Plant
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1905· 1 entry
In September 1905 a group of California's most influential businessmen, intellectuals, and politicians gathered at a banquet thrown in honor of Luther Burbank by the State Board of Trade.
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1893· 2 entries
Burbank published a descriptive catalog of some of his best varieties, entitled New Creations in Fruits and Flowers
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That the Starks began their storied cooperation with Luther Burbank and his fantastic new varieties of fruits
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1890· 1 entry
Which ended in divorce in 1896; and to Elizabeth Waters in 1916
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1849· 1 entry
Born 1849-03-07.
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