That turns the photos into a powerful tool for local USDA officials like Myron Stroup, in Olathe, Kan.

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The Chicago native earned a finance doctorate at the University of Chicago in the early 1970s, when he worked with advisors like Nobel Prize winner Merton Miller and Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, coauthors of the Black-Scholes options pricing model.

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Myron Atkin, professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, says scientists like Hawkins pushed teaching toward basic research, and away from the practical orientation that they felt was holding science education back.

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