page_title: Robert W. Allard
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Robert W. Allard / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: R.W. Allard as U.S. Navy Ensign, 1944
context_page_description: Robert "Bob" Wayne Allard was an American plant breeder and plant population geneticist who is widely regarded as one of the leading plant population geneticists of the 20th century. Allard became Chair of the Genetics Department at University of California, Davis in 1967; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973, and was awarded the DeKalb-Pfizer Distinguished Career Award and the Crop Science Science of America Award. He was honored as the Nilsson-Ehle Lecturer of the Mendelian Society of Sweden and as the Wilhelmine Key lecturer of the American Genetic Association. He also served as president of the Genetics Society of America, the American Genetic Association and the American Society of Naturalists.
  As Chair of the Department of Genetics at U.C. Davis he played a major role in bringing Theodosius Dobzhansky
  and Francisco J. Ayala to the Genetics Department in the early 1970s. With G. Ledyard Stebbins there as well, the department became preeminent in both plant and animal evolution. He trained 56 doctorate students and more than 100 masters students over his career.
context_section_description: Allard entered U.C. Davis as an undergraduate in 1937, and attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison for graduate training.  His PhD work was interrupted by World War II, where he engaged in biowarfare research. After the War he returned to U.W. Madison to defend his Ph.D. thesis on wheat cytogenetics.
caption: R.W. Allard as U.S. Navy Ensign, 1944
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