uawolf Inventory of the Frederick A. Wolf Papers, 1917 - 1975 Processed by: University Archives staff; machine-readable finding aid created by: Jill Katte University ArchivesDuke University
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 Descriptive Summary Frederick A. Wolf Papers, 1917 - 1975. Wolf, Frederick A. (Frederick Adolph), b. 1885. 0.4 Linear Feet, 100 Items University Archives, Duke University For current information on the location of these materials, please consult University Archives, Duke University. Frederick A. Wolf (1885-1975) served as Professor of Botany at Duke University from 1927 until his retirement in 1954. His research focused on tobacco agriculture and pathology. The Frederick A. Wolf papers include research notebooks and photographs, a list of his publications, and reprints of Wolf's scholarly articles, all concerning his research in tobacco and leaf diseases and fungi. English. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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 Provenance

The Frederick A. Wolf Papers were received by the University Archives as a transfer in 1975.

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 Biographical Note

Frederick Adolphus Wolf served as a James B. Duke Professor of Botany at Duke University from 1927 until his retirement in 1956. He was born in Odell, Nebraska in 1885, and received his bachelor's degree (1907) and master's degree (1908) from the University of Nebraska. After teaching botany at the University of Texas for three years, Wolf earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1911.

His early career included plant pathology research work at the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station and at the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. He joined the Botany faculty at Duke University in 1927. In 1965, he received the North Carolina Gold Medal, the state's highest honor, which recognized him for his research with tobacco. Two years later, the Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture honored Wolf for his contributions to the tobacco industry. In 1968, Wolf was given the Fellow Award of the Department of Plant Pathology of the American Phytopathological Society, and in 1970, he was named one of Tobacco's Men of the Year.

Wolf's research focused on aromatic tobacco, and he discovered that the aroma came from living hairs covering both sides of the plant's leaves. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Phytopathological Society, and the Botanical Society of America. He authored numerous scholarly articles and several books, including The Fungi: An introduction to their structure and classification (1947), Tobacco Diseases and Decays (1957), and Aromatic or Oriental Tobaccos (1962). Frederick Wolf died in 1975, at age 90.

 Collection Overview

The Wolf papers include research notebooks and photographs, a list of his publications, and reprints of some of Wolf's publications, all concerning his research in tobacco and leaf diseases and fungi.

 Subject Headings

These and related materials may be accessed under the following subject headings in the Duke University Libraries online catalog.

Wolf, Frederick A. (Frederick Adolph), b. 1885. Duke University--Faculty. Duke University. Dept. of Botany. Fungi. Mycology--Research. Southern States--Agriculture. Tobacco. Tobacco--Diseases and pests. Tobacco--North Carolina--Field experiments. Tobacco--Research. Contents of Collection Container List 1 List of Wolf's publications, 1975 [14 pages] Publications, 1917-1939 Publications, 1940-1957 Publications, 1958-1974 Photographs of tobacco agriculture, leaf diseases, Wolf conducting field research, ca. 1957-1958 Research notebooks, undated, 1935-1936, 1949 [4 bound volumes] Related Material Dept. of Botany records. University Archives, Duke University.