Dewey Raski

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Dewey John Raski (born 1917, d. 2014) is an American nematologist and phytopathologist.

Dewey was born in Utah, but moved to Los Angeles at the age of three. In 1941 he completed his entomological studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He returned to college in 1945 after a break from war. Meeting with Merlin Allen redirected his interest to nematodes. In 1948 he received the title of Doctor of Entomology. From 1948 he began to teach plant nematology at the University of California at Berkeley, and in 1954 he was transferred to the University of California at Davis for a new department of the Department of Plant Nematology. In that year he was appointed head of the Department of Nematology (later Department of Nematology and then Department of Entomology and Nematology) at Davis College and also a vice president of the respective faculties at Riverside and Berkeley universities. He retired in 1987.

Raski's research focused on nematodes. He was particularly well known for his research on the nematodes of vineyards and sugar beet fields and their role as carriers of plant viruses. He investigated alternative methods of controlling nematode populations in agriculture. Heterodera schachtii and is the principal author of Nematodes and Their Control in Vineyards and A History of Nematology in California. He was one of the founding members of the Society of Nematologists. In 1998, he received an award from UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

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