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Angell, Herbert Raleigh (1893 - 1992)

OBE

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Plant pathologist

Born: 21 August 1893 Manchester, Jamaica. Died: 25 January 1992 Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Herbert Raleigh Angell, a principal plant pathologist with CSIR/CSIRO 1940-58, was responsible for considerably reducing losses through blue mould in tobacco and other plant diseases. His wartime research was on retting of flax and diseases of flax. Angell was educated at Macdonald College in Canada and at the University of Wisconsin in the USA (BSA, MS, PhD) prior to his arrival in Australia.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1917 - 1918 Military service during the Great War (WW1) in France and Italy
1928 - 1940 Senior Plant Pathologists for CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)
1929 Research on purple blotch in onion published
1929 - 1938 Research on downy mildew (blue mould) of tobacco and its prevention by benzol vapour published
1930 Married Kate Rosalind Ramsay
1930 Research on the relation of protocatechuic acid to disease resistance in onion published
1931 Research on the control of soft rot in pineapple by benzoic acid published
1934 - 1938 Discovered the early symptoms of and published research on flag smut and bunt of wheat
1939 Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
1940 - 1958 Principal Plant Pathologist for CSIR/CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
1943 - 1947 Research on take-all of wheat published
1945 Research on browning of flax published
1949 - 1954 Research on seedling blight of peas and poppy published
1949 - 1955 Research on brown rot of stone fruits published

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See Also

Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P000020. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 24 May 2006

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