Robert Fraley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Robert Fraley

Date of Birth: 25-Jan-1953

Place of Birth: Danville, Illinois, United States

Profession: biologist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Robert T.
Fraley (January 25, 1953, Danville, Illinois) was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Monsanto, where he helped to develop the first genetically modified seeds.
He retired from Monsanto in June 2018.
He advocates for the use of GMO products to address global food insecurity and reduce the environmental footprint of agriculture.Fraley won the 2013 World Food Prize for "breakthrough achievements in founding, developing, and applying modern agricultural biotechnology" and the NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science "for developing technologies that enabled the production of the world's first transgenic crops." In 2009, he received the Biotechnology Heritage Award from the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation.After growing up on a small farm nearby Hoopeston, Illinois, Fraley earned his Ph.D.
degrees in microbiology and biochemistry from the University of Illinois.
He did post-doctoral research in biophysics at the University of California-San Francisco.He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).Fraley received The Progressive Farmer's Man of the Year in 1995 and the National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton in 1999.