Wilfred Eade Agar
Deceased Person
1882 – 1951
Who was Wilfred Eade Agar?
Wilfred Eade Agar FRS 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 and elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Agar Street in the Canberra suburb of Bruce was dedicated in his name.
Agar was the author of the book A Contribution to the Theory of the Living Organism. The book was based on the system of Whitehead's philosophy of the organism and argued for a form panpsychism.
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- Born
- Apr 27, 1882
Wimbledon, London - Education
- Sedbergh School
- University of Cambridge
- King's College, Cambridge
- Died
- Jul 14, 1951
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on July 23, 2013
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