Walter Lawry Waterhouse
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Walter Lawry Waterhouse (31 August 1887 – 9 December 1969) Australian agricultural scientist.
Waterhouse was born in West Maitland, New South Wales, educated at Sydney Boys' High School and later Hawkesbury Agricultural College, gaining its diploma in 1907. He enlisted in World War I, winning the Military Cross.
In 1918 Waterhouse studied at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, and obtained its diploma in 1921. He developed varieties of wheat which resisted rust (fungus). He was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1943.
[edit] Reference
Keith O. Campbell, 'Waterhouse, Walter Lawry (1887 - 1969)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, MUP, 1990, pp 391-392.
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