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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Created: 19 February 2019, Last modified: 30 April 2019