Life and career
Harold Henry Flor completed his B.S. at the University of Minnesota in 1922, and continued on to an M.S. degree there for the following two years. He received his M.S. degree in June 1924 for his research work entitled Control of covered smuts of small grains. Between January 1924 and May 1925 he worked at Iowa State College as a Research Fellow and completed his work on the Fungicidal activity of furfural there. For a year between September 1925 to September 1926 he worked as a Research Fellow at the graduate school of the University of Minnesota, following which he completed a research work on root rot in sugarcane supervised by E.G. Edgerton at the State University of Louisiana. His collective research at these three institutions earned him a PhD degree awarded by the University of Minnesota in June 1929. He remained there for the rest of his career, until retiring in 1969. ==References==