Theodore Alexander Kiesselbach (1884–1964) fondly referred to as "Mr. Corn" was an Agronomist, educator, author or co-author of over 140 articles, and an internationally renowned major developer of corn hybrids who lived in Lincoln, Nebraska.
[2] He played a key role in developing hybrid varieties of corn and helped improve other crops through his team's research in the Agronomy Department at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Agriculture.
[3][4][5] In 1913 he developed the first hybrid corn variety in the western United States, and by the 1940s hybrids he developed were widely adopted, accounting for $42M of farm income in Nebraska alone in 1949.
[1] In 1949 he published "The Structure and Reproduction of Corn", a reference work which was widely adopted and reprinted until at least 1998.
Kiesselbach was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy in 1927[7] and was received the Hoblitzell National Award in 1951.