# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-murray-east
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:57:14.062Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-murray-east"
name: "Edward Murray East"
slug: "edward-murray-east"
description: "Edward Murray East was an American plant geneticist, botanist, agronomist and eugenicist. He is known for his experiments that led to the development of hybrid corn and his support of 'forced' elimination of the 'unfit' based on eugenic findings. He worked at the Bussey Institute of Harvard University where he performed a key experiment showing the outcome of crosses between lines that differ in a quantitative trait. He is also known as a critic of consumption and as a pioneer of thinking about environmental limits. While some scholars see his population thinking as nothing more than eugenics on a global scale, others see his population thinking as driven by environmental concerns, not eugenics."
tagline: "American plant geneticist, botanist, agronomist and eugenicist (1879-1938)"
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gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1879-10-04"
deathDate: "1938-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump