James L. Van Etten

(1938- ) lives in Lincoln. Educator, plant pathologist, researcher, discovered with colleagues in 1981 a new family of viruses in algae that contain about 375 genes, enabling biochemists to study how viruses affect plants, animals, and humans, which may lead to the creation of new drugs, one of which could counteract muscle swelling; author or co-author of more than 150 research articles and 25 review articles, he has served on editorial boards of six scientific journals, and was elected to National Academy of Sciences in 2003. Consult American Men & Women of Science, Vol 7 (2003) 234 and Omaha World Herald, May 1, 2003, pp. B-1, B-2 and May 6, 2003, p. B-6.

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