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PAST STAKMAN AWARD RECIPIENTS

·         Dr. W.L. Waterhouse, Professor, University of Sydney, Australia, 1956

·         Dr. H.A. Rodenhizer, USDA, Washington, DC, (formerly Deputy Administrator for Farm Research), 1957

·         Dr. T. Johnson, Head, Canadian Rust Research Laboratory, Winnipeg, 1958

·         Dr. J.J. Christensen, Head, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, 1959

·         Mr. Jose Vallega, Argentina Department of Agriculture, FAO in Rome, 1960

·         Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, renowned wheat breeder and plant pathologist with the Rockefeller Foundation’s agricultural improvement program in Mexico, 1961

·         Dr. Helen Hart, Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, 1963

·         Dr. J.H. Craigie, former Head, Canadian Rust Research Laboratory, Winnipeg, 1964

·         Dr. J.A. Rupert, in charge of the Rockefeller Foundations agricultural improvement program in Chile, 1965

·         Dr. I.A. Watson, Dean, College of Agriculture, Sydney University, Australia, 1966

·         Dr. H.H. Flor, Research Plant Pathologist, USDA, Fargo, North Dakota, 1967

·         Sir Frederick C. Bawden, Director, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts, England, 1968

·         Dr. Donald G. Fletcher, former Executive Vice-President, Crop Quality Council, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1968

·         Dr. George J. Harrar, President, Rockefeller Foundation, 1969

·         Dr. H. Asuyama, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Tokyo, 1971

·         Dr. C.S. Holton, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, 1971

·         Dr. J.C. Walker, Professor Emeritus, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972

·         Dr. D.L. Bailey, Professor Emeritus, Department of Botany, University of Toronto, Canada, 1972

·         Dr. C.M. Christensen, Regents Professor Emeritus, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, 1981

·         Dr. J.F. Fulkerson, Plant Pathologist and Microbiologist, USDA, Washington, DC, 1982

·         Dr. E.J. Wellhausen, Special Staff Member, The Rockefeller Foundation, Mexico, 1982

·         Dr. J.E. VanderPlank, Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa, 1985

·         Dr. J.M. Daly, Department of Agricultural Biochemistry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1986

·         Dr. Arthur Kelman, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, 1987

·         Dr. Theodor O. Diener, USDA, Plant Virology Lab, Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland, 1988

·         Dr. R. James Cook, USDA, Regional Cereal Disease Research Lab, Washington State University, Pullman, 1989

·         Dr. Thor Kommedahl, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, 1990

·         Dr. Allen Kerr, Department of Crop Protection, The University of Adelaide, South Australia, 1991

·         Dr. Luis Sequeira, Departments of Bacteriology and Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, 1992

·         Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, Germplasm Improvement Subprogram International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, CIMMYT, Mexico, 1993

·         Dr. Malcolm C. Shurtleff, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, and Adjunct Professor, Texas A&M University, 1999

·         Dr. William Bushnell, Department of Plant Pathology, Cereal Disease Lab, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 2000

·         Dr. James DeVay, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, California 2001

·         Dr. Robert A. McIntosh, Plant Breeding Institute Cobbitty, Australia, 2002

·         Dr. Jeremy J. Burdon, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, 2003

·         Dr. Jan  E. Leach, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, 2004

·         Dr. Laurence V.  Madden, Department of Plant Pathology, Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, 2005

·         Dr. John W. Gibler, Leader in Latin American Crop Development, Alumnus - Plant Pathology and Plant Breeding, University of Minnesota, 2006

·         Sir Bent Skovmand, CIMMYT, 2007

·         Robert S. Zeigler, Director General, International Rice Research Institute, Makati City, Philippines, 2009