Wilfred Eade Agar

Wilfred Eade Agar

Wilfred Eade Agar (27 April 1882–14 July 1951) was an Anglo-Australian zoologist.

Agar was born in Wimbledon, England. He was educated at Sedbergh School, Yorkshire, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he read zoology. He served at Gallipoli in World War I.

In 1919, he accepted the chair of zoology at the University of Melbourne; his notable projects concerned marsupial chromosomes and inheritance in cattle. He successfully challenged the Lamarckian findings of William McDougall relating to the inheritance of the effects of training in rats.

Agar was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1944.

References

* [http://www.unimelb.edu.au/150/150people/agar.html Wilfred Eade Agar] at the University of Melbourne
*F.H. Drummond, ' [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070017b.htm Agar, Wilfred Eade (1882–1951)] ', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, MUP, 1979, pp. 16–17


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