Rachel Lloyd: The Science Behind the Beet
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In 1888, a farmer near Grand Island, Nebraska, grew a crop of sugar beets from French White Imperial seed. When those beets reached a chemistry laboratory at the University of Nebraska, they became part of an experiment that would help shape the state's agricultural future.
At the center of that research was Rachel Abbie Holloway Lloyd, a pioneering chemist who earned her doctorate at age 48 and came to Nebraska to teach and conduct research.
In this episode, we travel from the early sugar beet experiments of Europe to the laboratories of Lincoln, following Lloyd's remarkable…
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