Raymond Bushland
Raymond C. Bushland (October 5, 1910 – January 29, 1995) was an American
Early life and education
Bushland grew up in South Dakota and studied zoology and entomology at the University of South Dakota, earning a master's degree in 1934. He received a PhD from Kansas State University in 1953.[2]
Career
He then worked as an entomologist in the research department of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Dallas and from 1937 in Menard, Texas, where he met Knipling and did research with him on the New World screwworm Cochliomyia hominivorax. Their larvae were at the time a major parasite of cattle and caused great losses in US agriculture.[1]
The two developed the sterile insect technique after World War II. They tested their method on
In 1963, Bushland became the director of the USDA Metabolism and Radiation Research Laboratory in Fargo, North Dakota.[2] He retired in 1974.[1] Bushland died, aged 84, in Kerrville, Texas, on January 29, 1995.[2]
Awards and honors
Bushland received the 1949 US Typhus Commission Award for his work on typhus. In 1967, he received the USDA's Distinguished Service Award for his work on the sterile insect technique. In 1992, he was awarded the World Food Prize with Knipling.[1]
In 1999, the Knipling-Bushland Southwest Animal Research Foundation was established at Texas A&M University.[1]
In 2016, he and Knipling were posthumously awarded the Golden Goose Award.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "1992: Knipling and Bushland — Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World". The World Food Prize. February 28, 2017. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
- ^ ISSN 2155-9902.
- PMC 6346435.
- ^ "Edward Knipling and Raymond Bushland Win Award for the Sterile Insect Technique". Entomology Today. June 22, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2023.