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Ursula Abbott. John Gordon Abbott's mother.
January 15, 2012. Born in 1927 in Chilliwack, BC, Ursula graduated from Duke of Connaught High School in New Westminster in 1945. At UBC she received her bachelor’s degree in agriculture followed by an MSc in poultry and genetics. In 1955, she obtained her PhD in Genetics at University of California, Berkeley. Her career at University of California, Davis, spanned almost 50 years, during which time she travelled extensively and spent time living and working in Italy, France and Washington, DC.
Ursula earned the respect and admiration of her peers and graduate students for her dedication to the study of avian embryo, in particular the advancement of avian developmental genetics, and was chair of the Avian Sciences Department from 1981-1984. In her honour, and on the occasion of her retirement as emeritus professor, the Ursula K. Abbott Symposium on Developmental Genetics and Teratology was held at UC Davis in February, 2004.
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As a geneticist, Dr. Clyde Stormont worked to identify the genetic markers in the blood of animals which allow the verification of parentage, and is known as the founder of horse blood typing. Dr. Stormont was also the primary developer of equine blood typing. His research revolutionized the identification of racehorses and was adopted by The Jockey Club in the late 1970s, guaranteeing the integrity of the studbooks and protecting breeders, owners and the sporting public. Shortly thereafter, other breed associations adopted blood typing programs to ensure the integrity of their registries.
Dr. Stormont was born in 1916 in Viola, Wisconsin. He earned a B.S. degree in zoology in 1938 and a Ph.D. degree in genetics at the University of Wisconsin in 1947. (His doctoral work on blood groups in cattle was a research landmark.) He was an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin and a Fulbright-Hayes Fellow in New Zealand before joining the faculty at the newly-formed School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis, in 1950. Between that time and his retirement in 1982, Dr. Stormont conducted genetic research on several species in addition to horses. He established and was both chairman and director of Stormont Laboratories, Inc., Woodland, California.
In addition to his work on parentage verification blood typing, Dr. Stormont and his colleagues pinpointed the blood group markings responsible for hemolytic disease in newborn foals, and they devised a reliable test to identify mares at risk of producing such foals.
Dr. Stormont won many awards for his work, including the Louis Pasteur Medallion from the Pasteur Institute in Paris for his contributions to knowledge of animal blood groups, a Scripps Fellowship from the Zoological Society of San Diego, and the Director’s Award from the Arabian Horse Registry of America for “valuable contribution to the horse industry through the development of equine blood typing.” Dr. Stormont’s many professional affiliations included: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of Immunologists, American Society of Human Genetics, American Bison Association, Genetics Society of America, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, and the U.S. Animal Health Association.
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Riconosciuto was a prodigy who had grown up in the spook community. The Riconosciuto family had once run Hercules, California, as a company town. Hercules, however, had gotten out of the explosives business by 1940 when an anhydrous ammonia plant was constructed. In 1959 Hercules began a new manufacturing facility to produce methanol, formaldehyde, and urea formaldehyde. In 1966 the plant was sold to Valley Nitrogen Producers. Labor problems led to a plant closure in 1977. In 1979 the plant and site was purchased by a group of investors calling themselves Hercules Properties, Ltd.
However, Michael and his father Marshall Riconosciuto, a friend of Richard Nixon, continued to run the Hercules Research Corporation.
Riconosciuto's talents were much in demand. Samuel Cohen, the inventor of the neutron bomb, said of Riconosciuto: "I've spoken to Michael Riconosciuto and he's an extraordinarily bright guy. I also have a hunch, which I can't prove, that they both (Riconosciuto and Lavos, his partner) indirectly work for the CIA."
Riconosciuto's bomb made suitcase nukes obsolete, because it achieved near-atomic explosive yields, but could be more easily minaturized. The Meridian Arms Corporation, as well as the Universities of California and Chicago owned a piece of the technology.
But there was more than explosives in the portfolios of the CIA agents who surrounded Riconosciuto like moths around a candle. Both Robert Booth Nichols, the shady head of Meridian Arms Corporation (with both CIA and organized crime conections), and Dr. John Phillip Nichols, the manager of the Cabazon reservation, were involved in bio-warfare work-the first in trying to sell bio-warfare products to the army through Wackenhut, the second in giving tribal permission for research to take place at Cabazon. According to Riconosciuto, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was in charge of the classified contracts for biological warfare research. Riconosciuto would later testify under oath that Stormont Laboratories ( www.stormont-labs.com/ ) was involved in the DARPA-Wackenhut-Cabazon project. Jonathan Littman, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle would relate: "Cabazons and Wackenhut appeared to be acting as middlemen between the Pentagon's DARPA and Stormont Laboratories, a small facility in Woodland near Sacramento."
Ursula Abbott. John Gordon Abbott's mother.
January 15, 2012. Born in 1927 in Chilliwack, BC, Ursula graduated from Duke of Connaught High School in New Westminster in 1945. At UBC she received her bachelor’s degree in agriculture followed by an MSc in poultry and genetics. In 1955, she obtained her PhD in Genetics at University of California, Berkeley. Her career at University of California, Davis, spanned almost 50 years, during which time she travelled extensively and spent time living and working in Italy, France and Washington, DC.
Ursula earned the respect and admiration of her peers and graduate students for her dedication to the study of avian embryo, in particular the advancement of avian developmental genetics, and was chair of the Avian Sciences Department from 1981-1984. In her honour, and on the occasion of her retirement as emeritus professor, the Ursula K. Abbott Symposium on Developmental Genetics and Teratology was held at UC Davis in February, 2004.
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As a geneticist, Dr. Clyde Stormont worked to identify the genetic markers in the blood of animals which allow the verification of parentage, and is known as the founder of horse blood typing. Dr. Stormont was also the primary developer of equine blood typing. His research revolutionized the identification of racehorses and was adopted by The Jockey Club in the late 1970s, guaranteeing the integrity of the studbooks and protecting breeders, owners and the sporting public. Shortly thereafter, other breed associations adopted blood typing programs to ensure the integrity of their registries.
Dr. Stormont was born in 1916 in Viola, Wisconsin. He earned a B.S. degree in zoology in 1938 and a Ph.D. degree in genetics at the University of Wisconsin in 1947. (His doctoral work on blood groups in cattle was a research landmark.) He was an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin and a Fulbright-Hayes Fellow in New Zealand before joining the faculty at the newly-formed School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis, in 1950. Between that time and his retirement in 1982, Dr. Stormont conducted genetic research on several species in addition to horses. He established and was both chairman and director of Stormont Laboratories, Inc., Woodland, California.
In addition to his work on parentage verification blood typing, Dr. Stormont and his colleagues pinpointed the blood group markings responsible for hemolytic disease in newborn foals, and they devised a reliable test to identify mares at risk of producing such foals.
Dr. Stormont won many awards for his work, including the Louis Pasteur Medallion from the Pasteur Institute in Paris for his contributions to knowledge of animal blood groups, a Scripps Fellowship from the Zoological Society of San Diego, and the Director’s Award from the Arabian Horse Registry of America for “valuable contribution to the horse industry through the development of equine blood typing.” Dr. Stormont’s many professional affiliations included: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association of Immunologists, American Society of Human Genetics, American Bison Association, Genetics Society of America, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, and the U.S. Animal Health Association.
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Riconosciuto was a prodigy who had grown up in the spook community. The Riconosciuto family had once run Hercules, California, as a company town. Hercules, however, had gotten out of the explosives business by 1940 when an anhydrous ammonia plant was constructed. In 1959 Hercules began a new manufacturing facility to produce methanol, formaldehyde, and urea formaldehyde. In 1966 the plant was sold to Valley Nitrogen Producers. Labor problems led to a plant closure in 1977. In 1979 the plant and site was purchased by a group of investors calling themselves Hercules Properties, Ltd.
However, Michael and his father Marshall Riconosciuto, a friend of Richard Nixon, continued to run the Hercules Research Corporation.
Riconosciuto's talents were much in demand. Samuel Cohen, the inventor of the neutron bomb, said of Riconosciuto: "I've spoken to Michael Riconosciuto and he's an extraordinarily bright guy. I also have a hunch, which I can't prove, that they both (Riconosciuto and Lavos, his partner) indirectly work for the CIA."
Riconosciuto's bomb made suitcase nukes obsolete, because it achieved near-atomic explosive yields, but could be more easily minaturized. The Meridian Arms Corporation, as well as the Universities of California and Chicago owned a piece of the technology.
But there was more than explosives in the portfolios of the CIA agents who surrounded Riconosciuto like moths around a candle. Both Robert Booth Nichols, the shady head of Meridian Arms Corporation (with both CIA and organized crime conections), and Dr. John Phillip Nichols, the manager of the Cabazon reservation, were involved in bio-warfare work-the first in trying to sell bio-warfare products to the army through Wackenhut, the second in giving tribal permission for research to take place at Cabazon. According to Riconosciuto, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was in charge of the classified contracts for biological warfare research. Riconosciuto would later testify under oath that Stormont Laboratories ( www.stormont-labs.com/ ) was involved in the DARPA-Wackenhut-Cabazon project. Jonathan Littman, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle would relate: "Cabazons and Wackenhut appeared to be acting as middlemen between the Pentagon's DARPA and Stormont Laboratories, a small facility in Woodland near Sacramento."
