Person

Waterhouse, Walter Lawry (1887 - 1969)

FAA CMG

Born
31 August 1887
West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
Died
9 December 1969
Concord, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Agricultural scientist and Wheat propagator

Summary

Walter Waterhouse was renowned for his pioneering research into rusts of wheat, and his success in breeding wheat varieties resistant to rust and of high baking quality and yield. His research on annual changes in the pathogenic variability indicated the importance of grasses as hosts for economically important rusts. In 1921 Waterhouse was appointed Lecturer in the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney, and worked successfully with Robert Watt to built the reputation of the Faculty in teaching and research. Waterhouse, who succeeded Watt as professor of Agriculture in 1946, served as President od the Royal and Linnean Societies of New South Wales and was a foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

Details

Chronology

1907
Education - Diploma in agriculture, Hawkesbury Agricultural College
1914
Education - BAgSc, University of Sydney
1916 - 1917
Military service - Served with the Australian Imperial Forces
1918
Award - Walter and Eliza Hall Agricultural Research Fellowship, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
1921
Education - Received his Diploma from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
1921 - 1937
Career position - Lecturer in agricultural botany, plant pathology, and genetics and plant breeding, Department of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, University of Sydney
1929
Education - DAgSc, University of Sydney
1935 - 1936
Career position - President, Linnean Society of New South Wales
1937
Career position - President, Royal Society of New South Wales
1937 - 1946
Career position - Reader in Agriculture, University of Sydney
1938
Award - Farrer Memorial Medal, Farrer Memorial Trust
1939
Career position - President, Section K (Agriculture), Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
1943
Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
1946 - 1952
Career position - Professor of Agriculture, University of Sydney
1948
Award - Royal Society of New South Wales Medal
1949
Award - Farrer Memorial Medal, Farrer Memorial Trust
1949
Award - Australian Institute of Agricultural Science Medal
1952
Life event - Retired
1952
Award - James Cook Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
1954 - 1969
Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
1955
Award - Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
1956
Award - Elvin Charles Stalkman Award, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.
1960 - 1969
Award - Fellow, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science

Related Corporate Bodies

Related People

Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Walter Lawry Waterhouse - Records, 1878 - 1968, ML MSS 2792; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • Morton, Prof. R.K., 1961 - 1964, 9-65; School of Biochemistry, the University of Melbourne - Series 9 - Departmental Files, 1961-1964; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • Watson, I. A., 'Walter Lawry Waterhouse, 1887 - 1969 (memorial series, no. 22)', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 95 (3) (1971), 260-3. Details
  • Watson, I. A.; and Frankel, O. H., 'Walter Lawry Waterhouse', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 2 (3) (1972), 76-91. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9720230076.htm. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

Digital resources

Title
Walter Lawry Waterhouse
Type
Image

Details

McCarthy, G.J. and Helen Cohn

EOAS ID: biogs/P000870b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 February (Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#kooyang
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000870b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260