Plant biologist Arthur Galston’s research led to Agent Orange

He later helped raise awareness of its use, effects

By Jeremy Pearce / The Bulletin
June 24, 2008

Arthur Galston, a Yale plant biologist who did early research in the 1940s that helped lead to the herbicide Agent Orange, then helped raise awareness of the military’s use of it in Vietnam and its devastating effects on river ecosystems, died June 15 in Hamden, Conn. He was 88.

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