Richard Harry Hageman
Area:
plant nitrogen metabolism
Website:
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"Richard Harry Hageman"Bio:
(1917 - 2002)
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Richard Harry Hageman was born on a homestead in Powell, Wyoming, on April 14, 1917, to Frank Roy and Creda Dilema Wright Hageman. When Richard was five, the family moved to take up farming with his paternal grandparents near Hollenberg, Kansas. He advanced from the one room school, Silver Cliff, on completion of eighth grade to graduate from Hollenberg High School in 1934. Having shucked more than enough corn by then, he matriculated at Kansas State University, graduating with a B.S. in chemistry and the rank of Second Lieutenant in the ROTC. He completed an M.S. in plant nutrition from Oklahoma A & M College, where he met Margaret Elizabeth Catlett. They were married at Waleetka, Oklahoma, on August 14, 1941. From 1942 until 1946 Richard served in the Army Chemical Corps in Maryland, California and Colorado, training troops in protective tactics against chemical warfare agents. He was poised in Hawaii to go to the South Pacific just as WWII ended. With two children added to the family, Dick and Liz moved first to work for a year at the University of Kentucky and then to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, to work as a research chemist at the USDA Experiment Station from 1947 until 1950. Richard moved his family, then five, to the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed a Ph.D. in Plant Nutrition in 1954. In 9154, the Hageman family moved, in a memorable cross-country camping trip to Urbana, Illinois, where Richard joined the faculty from 1954 until his retirement in 1984. He was a co-discoverer of the nitrite reducing enzyme in plants, and he pioneered the use of enzyme levels as a means of improving corn production, publishing many highly cited works in the field of crop physiology and biochemistry, including the American Chemical Society Spencer Award for Outstanding Achievement in Agricultural Chemistry.
He was fondly regarded by his many students and colleagues, who were frequent guests in the Hageman household, under the expert care of Liz.
He is survived by his wife Elizabeth, his daughter Peggy and her husband Charles Burke, by his son, James and his wife Mary all of Mount Pleasant, Michigan, by his daughter Janet and her husband Maarten Chrispeels of Santa Barbara and La Jolla, California, and by 12 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. A funeral service is scheduled for Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 3:00 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Mt. Pleasant, with Rev. Patricia Green presiding. Donations in place of flowers may be given to Kansas State University endowment or to a charity of your choice. He will be very greatly missed as a husband, father, and human being.
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