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List of Famous Agricultural Scientists

Author

Emily Carr

Updated on January 17, 2026

Birthdate: July 4, 1922

Sun Sign: Cancer

Birthplace: Valley Head, Alabama, United States

Died: April 15, 2011

 An American professor, E. T. York was also an agronomist, university administrator, agricultural extension administrator, and U.S. presidential adviser. York not only authored over 100 technical papers, journal articles, and books, but he also lectured at more than forty universities in the US and throughout the world. In 1997, the Museum of Florida History named York as a "Great Floridian."