S         wR NOM                     FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN NEWS SERVICE, MADISON 6, WISCONSIN
6/17/57 lars                  RELEASE:                       Immediately
MADISON--The University of Wisconsin has trained more students who
are now professional botanists than any other school in the nation, a survey
reveals,
The survey, conducted by Charles J. Lyon, of Dartmouth College appears
in Science, professional scientific journal.
Lyon made his study by counting the number of professional botanists
named in the new American Men of Science, the Who's Who of the scientific
world, and tabulating the universities from which they obtained their doctorates.
U;hile many fields of science are partly botanical in subject matter,
Lyon in his study, in addition to primary botanists or plant scientists, in-
cluded only plant pathologists, physiologists, nutritionists, forest pathologists,
and economic botanists. He did not include geneticists, bacteriologists,
foresters, horticulturists, agronomists, or plant breeders.
Lyon found that Wisconsin placed at ie head of the list of universities
training American botanists. In order, the first 10 are: Wisconsin, 257;
Cornell, 214; Chicago, 174; California at Berkeley, 163; Minnesota, 140; Harvard,
123; Michigan, 90; Iowa State, 88; Columbia, 86; Ohio State, 69.
Studies made annually of the number of doctorates granted by American
colleges and universities have revealed that Wisconsin has ranked first for the
past two years in number of Fh.D.'s granted annually, indicating that it is first
choice as a training ground for many serious students who intend to become
scientists and scholars,