Richard Harry Hageman

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1954-1984 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL 
Area:
plant nitrogen metabolism
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https://www.k-state.edu/bmb/seminars/hageman/
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(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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Daniel I. Arnon grad student 1954 UC Berkeley
 (A study of triosephosphate dehydrogenase during the life cycle of green plants.)

Children

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Joe Howard Cherry grad student 1961 UIUC (Cell Biology Tree)
Larry E Schrader grad student 1963-1967 UIUC
Kenneth W. Joy post-doc 1964-1965 UIUC
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Eichelberger KD, Lambert RJ, Below FE, et al. (1989) Divergent Phenotypic Recurrent Selection for Nitrate Reductase Activity in Maize. II. Efficient Use of Fertilizer Nitrogen Crop Science. 29: 1398-1402
Eichelberger KD, Lambert RJ, Below FE, et al. (1989) Divergent Phenotypic Recurrent Selection for Nitrate Reductase Activity in Maize. I. Selection and Correlated Responses Crop Science. 29: 1393-1397
Ho I, Below FE, Hageman RH. (1987) Effect of head removal on leaf senescence of sunflower. Plant Physiology. 83: 844-8
Connell T, Below F, Hageman R, et al. (1987) Photosynthetic components associated with differential senescence of maize hybrids following ear removal Field Crops Research. 17: 55-62
Mae T, Hageman RH. (1986) Proteinases in Senescing Maize (Zea maysL.) Leaves* Soil Science and Plant Nutrition. 32: 285-294
Below FE, Crafts-Brandner SJ, Hageman RH. (1985) Effect of foliar applications of urea on accelerated senescence of maize induced by ear removal. Plant Physiology. 79: 1077-9
Below FE, Crafts‐Brandner SJ, Harper JE, et al. (1985) Uptake, Distribution, and Remobilization of 15 N‐labeled Urea Applied to Maize Canopies 1 Agronomy Journal. 77: 412-415
Crafts-Brandner SJ, Below FE, Harper JE, et al. (1984) Effect of nodulation on assimilate remobilization in soybean. Plant Physiology. 76: 452-5
Crafts-Brandner SJ, Below FE, Harper JE, et al. (1984) Effects of Pod Removal on Metabolism and Senescence of Nodulating and Nonnodulating Soybean Isolines: II. Enzymes and Chlorophyll. Plant Physiology. 75: 318-22
Crafts-Brandner SJ, Below FE, Harper JE, et al. (1984) Effects of pod removal on metabolism and senescence of nodulating and nonnodulating soybean isolines: I. Metabolic constituents. Plant Physiology. 75: 311-7
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