John S. Niederhauser
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John S. Niederhauser graduated Cornell University with a degree in plant pathology in 1943. He began work at the Rockefeller Foundation's Mexican Agricultural Program (MAP) in 1946. There, he studied diseases of corn, wheat, and beans. Later, he directed the Inter-American and International Potato Improvement Programs headquartered in Mexico from 1961 to 1972.[1] He helped found the International Potato Center (CIP) in Lima, Peru in 1971 and the Regional Cooperative Potato Program (PRECODEPA) in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean in 1978. Among his most significant achievements was the development of potato varieties resistant to late blight. He was awarded the World Food Prize in 1990.
