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John Mortvedt
John Jacob Mortvedt (January 25, 1932 – March 12, 2012) was an American soil scientist who worked with micronutrient fertilizer.
Early life and education.
Born and raised on a Dell Rapids, South Dakota, farm to Ernest and Clara Mortvedt, John Mortvedt earned a bachelor's degree in agronomy from South Dakota State University in 1953. After a brief return to the farm, Mortvedt was a pilot for a US Army aviation unit stationed in Colorado, between World War II and the Korean War
. He married Marlene Fodness in Rapid City, South Dakota, on January 23, 1955. Mortvedt studied for a master's degree in soil science from SDSU and graduated in 1959, continuing for his Ph.D. in soil chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1962. Mortvedt wrote his thesis on “the effect of manganese and copper on the growth of "Streptomyces scabies" and the incidence of potato scab.”
Career.
John Mortvedt joined the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and worked in Muscle Shoals,