Sylvan Wittwer

Sylvan Wittwer (1917 to 2012) was an American agronomist who served as director of the agricultural experiment station at Michigan State University. He was born in Hurricane, Utah, took his bachelor's degree at Utah State University and his doctorate at the University of Missouri, and was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Honor of the College of Agriculture and Applied Science at Utah State University in 2003. He wrote Feeding a Billion (1987), Food, Climate, and Carbon Dioxide: The Global Environment and World Food Production (1995) and Greenhouse Tomatoes, Lettuce and Cucumber (1979). He sat on the boards of the Greening Earth Society and the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.