Albert Pugsley

Albert Pugsley (1910 to 2002) was an Australian agricultural scientist and wheat breeder, born in Mildura, Victoria. He took a degree in agricultural science at the University of Melbourne in 1931 and a Doctor of Science at the University of Adelaide in 1954 for research on disease resistance in plants. He worked as a plant pathologist at the Victorian Department of Agriculture and as a plant geneticist at the Waite Agricultural Institute in South Australia, and in 1953 he became the founding Director of the Agricultural Research Institute at Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, a post he held until 1975. He received the William Farrer Medal in 1953 and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1981, and the wheat variety Pugsley was named in his honour.