The oldest agricultural research station in the world, founded in 1843 on John Bennet Lawes's Hertfordshire estate with the chemist Joseph Henry Gilbert. Its Broadbalk wheat experiment has run continuously since 1843, the longest-running field experiment anywhere, and its staff invented modern experimental statistics: R. A. Fisher developed randomization and the analysis of variance on Rothamsted's plots. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Founding Year HeadquartersHarpenden, Hertfordshire, England 1 Classification
KindNational Agricultural Research Institute 1 Connections
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Soil Fertility, Concepts Rothamsted Research runs the Broadbalk Wheat Experiment, the world's longest-running soil fertility experiment.
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The oldest agricultural research station in the world, founded in 1843 on John Bennet Lawes's Hertfordshire estate with the chemist Joseph Henry Gilbert.
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