Aaron Aaronsohn
Aaron Aaronsohn · Science & Medicine
Agronomist who discovered wild emmer, the ancestor of cultivated wheat, and founded the first agricultural research station in the Land of Israel
21 May 1876, Bacău, Romania — 15 May 1919, English Channel
Romania · Ottoman Palestine · United States
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Aaron Aaronsohn was a Jewish agronomist and botanist whose parents were among the founders of Zikhron Ya'akov, one of the first settlements of the First Aliyah. In 1906 he identified wild emmer wheat on the slopes of Mount Hermon — the wild ancestor of cultivated wheat, a finding of lasting importance to plant breeding — and founded an agricultural experiment station at Atlit. During the First World War he led NILI, the intelligence network that worked with the British against Ottoman rule.
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Agronomist who discovered wild emmer, the ancestor of cultivated wheat, and founded the first agricultural research station in the Land of Israel
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