Joseph M. Daly

(1922-1993) lived in Lincoln. Plant pathologist, educator, contributed rigorous standards to physiological investigations of rust-diseases of plants that limit human food supply, established purification, structure determination, and synthesis of plant toxins produced by fungi, thereby setting the stage for application of molecular techniques that subsequently became available, co-authored several scientific papers; elected to National Academy of Sciences in 1984. Consult Phytopathology, Vol 66 (January 2, 1976) 2 and Vol 84 (June 1994) 552 and National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs, Vol 71 (1997) 33-47.

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