DR. J. GORDON GIBBS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 157, 29 March 1939, Page 13

DR. J. GORDON GIBBS

American University Award Dr. J. Gordon Gibbs, Palmerston North, son of Dr. H. E. Gibbs, Wellington, has had advice that the University of Minnesota, U.S.A., Iras conferred upon him the degree of doctor philosophy. The award is the result of two years’ special study at the University of Minnesota and also for research work with the Plant Research Station and Plant Disease Division of the Department of Agriculture, New Zealand. Dr. Gibbs at present holds the position of plant pathologist at the research station in Palmerston North. Dr. Glblis has been engaged chiefly upon investigations into fungus diseases of economic crop plants, particularly into the club-root diseases of swedes, turnips and the diseases of cereals. In 1935 he was awarded a Commonwealth Fund Service Fellowship for research work in the United States of America. While abroad he took the opportunity of visiting most of the leading institutions throughout the United States, where problems of plant disease and breeding for disease-resistance were studied. He pursued similar studios in England and on the Continent. Incidentally, the conferring of this honour makes him the eighth doctor in the Gibbs family, the New Zealand founders of which arrived in Nelson by the ship Queen Bee in the 70’s.