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Leonard A. Maynard (1887–1972)

With the death of Professor Leonard A. Maynard on June 22, 1972, following a brief illness, the world lost one of its great pioneers and leaders in dairy and animal nutrition.

Professor Maynard was born on a farm in Hartford, Washington County, New York, on November 8, 1887. The rural environment of his youth stimulated his interests in plants and animals and his life-long work in biology and nutrition. Maynard enrolled in Wesleyan University in 1907 and was graduated in 1911, cum laude. After two years as an assistant in chemistry in the agricultural experiment stations in Iowa and Rhode Island, Maynard enrolled in the Graduate School of Cornell University in 1913 in chemistry. He received the Ph.D. in 1915 and immediately accepted a position as assistant professor in the Department of Animal Husbandry, Cornell University, thus starting a career of teaching and research which lasted 40 years until his retirement and appointment as Emeritus Professor of Nutrition and Biochemistry in 1955.