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'''Thomas Jonathan Burrill''' (April 25, 1839 – April 14, 1916) was an [[United States|American]] [[botanist]] who first discovered bacterial causes for plant disease.<ref name="amsobit">Thomas Jonathan Burrill: April 25, 1839-April 14, 1916. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Oct., 1916), pp. 269-270</ref> He introduced ''[[Erwinia amylovora]]'' as the causal agent of [[pear fire blight]].
Born in [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]], he graduated [[Illinois State University|Illinois State Normal University]] in 1865.<ref>{{cite journal|title='''BURRILL, Thomas Jonathan'''|journal=The International Who's Who in the World|year=1912|page=p. 213|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=I-wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA213}}</ref> In 1868, he was elected professor of botany and horticulture at [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|University of Illinois]] and remained there the rest of his career, eventually serving as Vice President in 1882.<ref name="smith">Smith, Erwin F. (1914). [http://jb.asm.org/cgi/reprint/1/3/ii.pdf In Memoriam: Thomas Jonathan Burrill.]</ref>
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