Walter Lawry Waterhouse (1887 to 1969) was an Australian agricultural scientist who developed rust-resistant varieties of wheat. Born in West Maitland, New South Wales, the son of an educator, he was schooled at Sydney Boys' High School, where his father was headmaster, and took a diploma at Hawkesbury Agricultural College in 1907. For a time between 1906 and 1910 he was headmaster at the Methodist Mission Boys High School at Davuilevu in Fiji. He served in the First World War and won the Military Cross, studied at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London from 1918 and took its diploma in 1921. He became a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and received the Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1943.
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was an Australian agricultural scientist, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and Clarke Medallist
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Walter Lawry Waterhouse, MC (31 August 1887-9 December 1969)
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He developed varieties of wheat which resisted rust.
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was an Australian agricultural scientist, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and Clarke Medallist
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He developed varieties of wheat which resisted rust.
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He developed varieties of wheat which resisted rust.
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