E. G. (Edwin George) Hastings

Born in Ohio in 1872, Edwin George Hastings became an American professor of agricultural bacteriology and built his career at the University of Wisconsin. He is especially remembered for work on bovine tuberculosis with Harry Luman Russell and for helping apply the tuberculin test to cattle herds.

Hastings also wrote clear, instructional books, including Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, which helped bring bacteriology to readers interested in dairying and agricultural science. That mix of research and teaching made him a useful bridge between the laboratory and the farm.

He later served as president of the American Society for Microbiology in 1923. Hastings died in 1953 in Orlando, Florida.