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Apr 17, 1865 Died on 01 Jan 1944 (aged 78)
Brazilian agronomist
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About Peter Henry Rolfs
- Peter Henry Rolfs (1865–1944) was a prominent Florida agronomist in the early 20th century.
- He directed the Florida Agriculture Experiment Station from 1905 to 1920, and from 1915 to 1920 served as the Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Florida.
- Rolfs then moved to Brazil to found the Universidade Federal de Viçosa in Viçosa, Minas Gerais. Rolfs was the first to describe a common plant pathogen called Southern Blight, or Sclerotium rolfsii.
