Olaf Sverre Aamodt was an agronomist who was the head of the Department of Field Crops at the University of Alberta in 1932-1935. He studied agronomy and farm management at the University of Minnesota, completing his master’s thesis, “The Inheritance of Growth Habit and Resistance to Stem Rust in a Cross Between Two Varieties of Common Wheat,” in 1922. He also worked for the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry, leading the Forage Crops and Diseases Division. He was a member of the Washington Academy of Sciences.
