- Biographical Note:
- Brady served in the Soils faculty of the Agronomy Department, starting in 1942, just prior to the disruptions of World War II and the following period of great expansion. The first Ph.D.s with a Soils major were awarded to N. S. Hall and N. C. Brady in 1947. However, these degrees were actually awarded through UNC-Chapel Hill because it was the only campus within the UNC system authorized to award a doctorate at that time. Advances in the peanut soil-fertility—mineral-nutrition and crop management area in this period included the identification of different nutrient requirements and methods and times of fertilizer application for the peg (seed pod) of the peanut versus the purely vegetative parts of the plant. This important finding was based on research by W. E. Colwell, N. C. Brady, Fielding Reed and colleagues.
