Person

Agar, Wilfred Talbot (1910 - 2000)

Born
1910
Scotland
Died
11 June 2000
Occupation
Physician and Physiologist

Summary

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.

Skip to

Details

Chronology

1920
Life event - Migrated to Australia (Melbourne)
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

Published resources

Resources

Annette Alafaci

Created: 9 May 2006, Last modified: 15 November 2022

EOAS ID: biogs/P004688b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004688b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260