Robert Fraley
Dr. Robert T. Fraley is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Monsanto, who won the 2013 World Food Prize for "breakthrough achievements in founding, developing, and applying modern agricultural biotechnology"[1][2] and the NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science [3]
After growing up on a small farm in Illinois, Fraley earned his Ph.D. degrees in microbiology and biochemistry from the University of Illinois. He then did post-doctoral research in biophysics at the University of California-San Francisco.[4]
He is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science.[5]
Fraley received The Progressive Farmer's Man of the Year in 1995 and the National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton in 1999.[6]
References
- ↑ https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates/2010__2013_laureates/2013__van_montagu_chilton_fraley/
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/monsanto-executive-is-among-world-food-prize-winners.html
- ↑ NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-robert-t-fraley/
- ↑ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=550653&ticker=MON
- ↑ http://www.monsanto.com/whoweare/pages/robert-fraley-bio.aspx
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- Dr. Robb Fraley - Sharing The Stories Of Genetic Science And Its Relation To Food And Consumers , presentation audio by Dr. Fraley at the 2016 Agribusiness Council of Indiana Conference & Expo, January 18 - 19, 2016, Indianapolis, IN, USA, published with permission.