- Sept. 15, 1995 George Beadle: A Renaissance Man Spun From Cornsilk Nobel Winner James Watson To Speak at Beadle Dedication Sept. 22 Little Known Facts About the Beadle Center Research and Education Go Hand in Hand at the Beadle Center George Beadle: A Renaissance Man Spun From Cornsilk By Andrea Wood Cranford, UNL Alumni Association George Wells Beadle was a homespun sort of Renaissance man. The ...www.libfind.unl.edu/scarlet/v5n23/v5n23special.html