Adrian M. Srb

(1917-1997) born at Howells, Colfax County, graduated from Howells High School in 1933, earned bachelor’s degree in English literature in 1937 and master’s degree in agronomy in 1941 from University of Nebraska-Lincoln and doctorate in biology from Stanford University in 1946. Geneticist, educator, author, as a specialist in developmental genetics at Cornell University, he introduced biochemical genetics and played a major role in establishing its Division of Biological Sciences in the 1960s; author of more than 80 scientific articles, and co-author of several important books, his General Genetics (W. H. Freeman, 1953) with Ray Owen became a leading introductory textbook for three decades, used in more than 100 American colleges and translated for Japanese, Spanish, and Polish editions; elected to National Academy of Sciences in 1968. Consult American Men & Women of Science, 19th ed, Vol 6 (1995-96) 1173 and tribute in June 3, 1997 Ithaca /NY/ Journal and obituary in June 5, 1997 Cornell Chronicle and Memorial Statements: Cornell University Faculty—1998-99 (Office of the Dean of Faculty, Cornell University, 1999) 117-121.

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