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Douglas Frew Waterhouse
by Robyn Stacey
lenticular technology
by Robin Ford, Ozzillusions
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About Douglas Frew Waterhouse
Douglas Frew Waterhouse AO CMG (1916-2000) is best known
as the man who identified the active ingredients for an
insect repellent that came to be marketed as Aerogard.
Head of the Entomology division of CSIRO from 1960 to
1981, he championed the use of the dung beetle for biological
control of bush flies. He was the driving force behind
the Australian National Insect Collection, the Stored
Grain Research Laboratory and the use of nematodes and
synthetic sex pheromones for controlling insect pests.
Over the course of his career he oversaw a number of valuable
integrated pest management projects in Papua New Guinea,
the Pacific Islands and Asia. He was a Fellow of the Royal
Society, the Australian Academy of Science and of the
Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and
the recipient of numerous awards and medals. |
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