Awards & Winners

Jay Laurence Lush

Date of Birth 03-January-1896
Place of Birth Shambaugh
(Page County, Iowa, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Geneticist
Jay Laurence Lush was a pioneering animal geneticist who made important contributions to livestock breeding. He is sometimes known as the father of modern scientific animal breeding. Lush received National Medal of Science in 1968 and the Wolf Prize in 1979. Lush was introduced to mathematics and genetics during his B.Sc. studies of animal husbandry at the Kansas State Agricultural College. He completed his M.Sc. in 1918 at Kansas State, and his Ph.D. in genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Lush advocated breeding not based on subjective appearance of the animal, but on quantitative statistics and genetic information. Lush authored a classic book 'Animal Breeding Plans' in 1937 which greatly influenced animal breeding around the world. From 1930 to 1966, Lush was the Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture at Iowa State University. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1967. Lush won the Borden Award for research in dairy production from the American Dairy Science Association and both the Armour Award for animal breeding and genetics and the Morrison Award from the American Society of Animal Science. In 1979, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture.

Awards by Jay Laurence Lush

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1979


Wolf Prize in Agriculture
(for his outstanding and pioneering contributions to the application of genetics to livestock improvement;)

1968


National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
(For bringing the science of genetics to bear upon animal breeding, and thus helping to remould the flocks and herds of America and Western Europe.)