Peter Henry Rolfs
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| Born | April 17, 1865 |
| Field | Agriculture |
| Institutions | University of Florida |
| Alma mater | Iowa State University |
| Known for | Founding the Universidade Federal de Viçosa |
Peter Henry Rolfs (1865-1944) was a prominent Florida agronomist in the early twentieth century. He directed the Florida Agriculture Experiment Station from 1905 to 1920, and from 1915 to 1920 served as the Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Florida. Rolfs then moved to Brazil to found the Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Viçosa, Minas Gerais.
Rolfs was the first to describe a common plant pathogen called Southern Blight, or Sclerotium rolfsii.
[edit] External links
- Biography in Portuguese at the UFV website.
- Peter Henry Rolfs collection at the University of Florida
