Cattle Veterinarians and Animal Scientists
The veterinarians and researchers who beat tick fever, anthrax and rinderpest and made herds healthier.
29 profiles
China
- livingGao HuijiangA Beijing geneticist who helps run the network that turned one research herd into a national beef breeding system.China
- livingLi JunyaA Beijing animal scientist spent two decades building a core herd in Inner Mongolia that won national breed approval…China
- livingZan LinsenA Shaanxi animal scientist who has spent his career on China's Qinchuan cattle, from barcode traceability to genomic…China
- livingTang XiangfangA deputy director in Beijing who pledged faster genetic progress for China's home-bred beef breed.China
- livingChen YanA Beijing researcher whose gene chip made genomic selection affordable for Chinese beef breeders.China
United Kingdom
- 1855-1931David BruceA British army doctor camped in the Zululand bush and identified the parasite and the fly behind a disease that kept…United Kingdom
- 1853-1941John McFadyeanA Wigtownshire farm boy became Britain's first veterinary bacteriologist and ran the Royal Veterinary College for 33…United Kingdom
- 1923-2010Walter PlowrightA British vet working in Kenya grew a virus in calf kidney cells and handed the world a cheap, one-dose cure for its…United Kingdom
- 1869-1926Stewart StockmanA Leith-born professor who learned stock disease in the Transvaal spent 21 years steering British policy on cattle…United Kingdom
France
- 1712-1779Claude BourgelatA Lyon riding master with a taste for science built the first school of veterinary medicine and put its students to…France
- 1835-1918Alexandre LiautardA Paris-born army veteran landed in New York in 1860 and spent four decades building the schools, journals and…France
- 1822-1895Louis PasteurIn May 1881 a crowd watched on a farm near Paris as Louis Pasteur tried to prove that vaccinated livestock could…France
Australia
Indonesia
South Africa
- 1909-Jan Cornelis BonsmaA University of Pretoria animal scientist crossed Afrikaner cattle with British breeds and produced South Africa's…South Africa
- 1867-1936Arnold TheilerA one-handed Swiss veterinarian arrived in South Africa in 1891 and went on to found the continent's most important…South Africa