Person

Wrigley, Colin Walter ( - 2010)

AM

Died
October 2010
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Cereal chemist

Summary

Colin Wrigley was internationally recognised for his research on cereal grains, particularly the characterisation of cereal-grain proteins in relation to processing quality. For nearly 30 years he was a research scientist with the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, including a period as Officer-in-Charge of the Wheat Research Unit. Wrigley published over 600 research papers and books: he was senior editor of Gliadin and glutenin: the unique balance of wheat quality. (2005) and Encyclopedia of food grains (2nd edition, 2015).

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Chronology

1961 - 1982
Career position - Research Scientist (later Senior Research Scientist), Wheat Research Unit, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
1979 - 1980
Career position - Chairman, Cereals Chemistry Division, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1982 - 1988
Career position - Chief Research Scientist, Wheat Research Unit, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
1987
Award - H G Smith Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1987 - 2010
Award - Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1988
Award - F. B. Guthrie Medal, Cereal Chemistry Division, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1992
Award - T B Osborne Medal, Fellow and Life Member, American Association of Cereal Chemists
1994
Award - Harald Perten Prize, International Association for Cereal Science and Technology
1994
Award - Senior Fellowship, Australian Grains Research and Development Corporation
2001 - 2010
Award - Honorary Research Fellow, Food Science Australia
2002 - 2007
Career position - Post-Retirement Fellow and Program Leader, Quality Wheat Co-operative Research Centre
2005
Award - Archibald D. Ollé Prize, New South Wales Branch, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
2007
Career position - Lecturer, Maha Sarakham University, Thailand
2008
Award - Speaker, AACC International Meeting
2009
Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to primary industry, particularly to grain science as a researcher, and to the development of methods for improving wheat quality

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Book Sections

  • Wrigley, C. W., 'Farrer, William James (1845-1906), wheat breeder' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 471-473. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/farrer-william-james-6145. Details
  • Wrigley, C. W., 'Guthrie, Frederick Bickell (1861-1927), agricultural chemist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 143-144. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/guthrie-frederick-bickell-6509. Details
  • Wrigley, C. W.; and Rathjen, A., 'Wheat breeding in Australia' in Plants and Man in Australia, Carr, D. J. and Carr, S. G. M., eds (Sydney: Academic Press, 1981), pp. 96-135. Details

Journal Articles

  • Wrigley, C. W., 'W. J. Farrer and F. B. Guthrie: the Unique Breeder-Chemist Combination That Pioneered Quality Wheats for Australia', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 4 (1) (1979), 7-25. https://www.publish.csiro.au/hr/HR9790410007. Details
  • Wrigley, C. W., 'F.B. Guthrie: Australia's Pioneer Cereal Chemist', Chemistry in Australia (1988), 306-311. Details

See also

Helen Cohn

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