The IRRI Pioneer Interviews
Conducted by Gene Hettel

Rice Today is publishing edited excerpts in the magazine from selected interviews with the pioneers of rice research. As one of the activities to commemorate IRRI’s 50th, we have already logged around 100 hours in conversation with nearly 50 pioneers (with more planned), ranging from those who first roamed the rice plots with IRRI’s first director general Robert F. Chandler, Jr., to others recently retired.

Through 2010, Rice Today is featuring, along with the interview excerpts in the magazine, full transcripts (see Peter Jennings, Carolyn Moomaw, Nyle Brady and Kwanchai Gomez examples below) and occasional full video productions (as with the Jennings interview) here on the Rice Today Web site.


Luck is the residue of design                     The problem solver
Peter Jennings                                              Nyle C. Brady
                        

Reflections of a rice widow                         Figures, fake guns...
Carolyn Moomaw Wilhelm                          Kwanchai Gomez
                   

Dedicated scientists...
Usha Palaniswamy




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