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Author Rempel, Richard A.

Title Research and reform : W.P. Thompson at the University of Saskatchewan / Richard A. Rempel
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2013 (Toronto, Ont. : Scholars Portal, 2013)

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 308 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Formative Years -- Research: Genetics -- The Administrator -- The Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Ascendancy of the Natural Sciences -- Governance and Governments -- Service -- Unfinished Business -- Retirement and Medicare -- Last Years and Legacies -- Appendices. 1 A Key Example of Thompson's Chromosome Work ; 2 Thompson's Work on Endosperm ; 3 Recent References to Thompson's Wheat Rust Research ; 4 A Bibliography of Thompson's Publications
Summary The untold story of a Canadian pioneer in genetics, undergraduate science education, and the establishment of Medicare
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-293) and index
Notes English
Subject Thompson, Walter Palmer, 1889-1970
University of Saskatchewan -- History
University of Saskatchewan -- Presidents -- Biography
SUBJECT University of Saskatchewan fast
Subject Botanists -- Canada -- Biography
Geneticists -- Canada -- Biography
College presidents -- Canada -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Botanists
College presidents
Geneticists
Presidents
Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773541740
0773541748
9780773588905
0773588906