Ira Lawrence Baldwin was the founder and director emeritus of the Wisconsin Academy Foundation.
15 Facts About Ira Baldwin
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Ira Baldwin began teaching bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin in 1927 and a few years later moved into what became a career in administration.
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Ira Baldwin held positions as chair of the Department of Bacteriology, dean of the Graduate School, dean and director of the College of Agriculture, university vice president for academic affairs, and special assistant to the president.
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Ira Baldwin was involved in programs for agricultural development both in the United States and abroad.
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Ira Baldwin wrote a hostile review of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, titled "Chemicals and Pests," in the journal Science.
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Ira Baldwin was born in 1895 on a 40-acre farm in Indiana.
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Ira Baldwin served state-side as a second lieutenant in an artillery unit.
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In 1943, Ira Baldwin became the first scientific director of the US Army Biological Warfare Laboratories at Camp Detrick, Maryland.
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Ira Baldwin found a site suitable for making the deadly microbes.
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Ira Baldwin chose an abandoned airfield in Maryland called Detrick Field, which later became known as Camp Detrick.
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Ira Baldwin was most proud of the safety arrangements that came with the operation.
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Ira Baldwin continued to be worried that opponents of the United States might try to subtly use microbes to harm the country.
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Ira Baldwin therefore suggested many experiments, which ended up taking place, to test how certain places would be affected by possible environmental changes that come from biowarfare.
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Ira Baldwin died a few days before his 104th birthday in 1999.
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Ira Baldwin is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison.