Richard Bradfield dies; retired Cornell professor
The Ithaca Journal, May 2 1981, P. 3 (with photo)

"Richard Bradfield, 85, professor of agronomy at Cornell University for more than four decades, former department chairman and former university trustee, died Friday, May 1, 1981, in Bedford, Pa.
  He died at the Bedford Memorial Hospital after suffering a heart attack.
  Bradfield had been a professor emeritus at the university since 1962. Bradfield Hall, which houses the agronomy and atmospheric science departments, was named in his honor in 1968 to recognize his distinguished work in agriculture.
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  After he retired from Cornell, Bradfield continued as a consultant to the Rockefeller Institute, work he began in 1941. He also served as a consultant to the University of Hawaii and as a senior fellow of the East-West Center and the East-West Food Institute.
  He was named head of the agronomy department at Cornell in 1937, a position he held until 1952. He began his career as a teacher at the University of Missouri in 1920 and continued at Ohio University in 1930. He received his education at Otterbein College where he received a bachelor's degree in 1917 and Ohio State University where he received a doctoral degree in 1922."