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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2006-05-09 human Annette Alafaci updated 2025-05-28 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004688b.htm person Agar Wilfred Talbot AACR2 1910 11 June 2000 Place of Birth Scotland Physician Physiologist Wilfred Agar migrated to Australia with his family in 1920. The family lived in one of the residential houses at the University of Melbourne where his father, Wilfred Eade Agar was appointed Professor of Zoology. After completing his secondary schooling at Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar, Wilfred Talbot Agar began a Bachelor of Science Degree at the University. By third year, he had converted to a medical degree and graduated in 1934. Agar's first job was at the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) followed by an appointment as the first Nuffield Dominion Demonstrator in Physiology at the University of Oxford in the UK. When war broke out, Agar volunteered with the Royal Australian Military Corp and was appointed Officer Commanding a Field Transfusion Unit. In 1945 he returned to Australia and the University of Melbourne where he was Senior Lecturer then Reader in Physiology. One of his greatest finds was that some of the underground waters of Victoria's Western District contained toxic levels of magnesium salts. Wilfred Talbot Agar resigned from the University in 1966 and moved to the Western District where he died in 2000. 1920 1920 Life event - Migrated to Australia (Melbourne) 1934 1934 Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Melbourne 1934 1937 Career position - Scientist at the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories in Parkville, Victoria 1938 1942 Career position - Nuffield Dominion Demonstrator in Physiology, University of Oxford, UK 1942 1945 Career position - Officer Commanding a Field Transfusion Unit with the Royal Australian Medical Corp in north-east India 1945 1955 Career position - Senior Lecturer in Physiology, University of Melbourne 1956 1966 Career position - Reader in Physiology, University of Melbourne Agar, Wilfred Eade (1882 - 1951) Agar, Wilfred Talbot (1910-2000)

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