Kenneth Adie Ferguson

circa 1972, Prospect, CSIRO Laboratory, NSW, Australia

Kenneth Adie Ferguson (6 April 1921  15 April 2011) was an Australian veterinary scientist.

Family

Ferguson was born in Wahroonga, the fourth child of Eustace William Ferguson and Jessie Perry. He married Helen McVicar, veterinarian (born 1925 in Manly, NSW) in 1946 and they had five children, Deborah, Maggie Ferguson, Kate, John and Angus. They lived at West Pennant Hills in North-western Sydney, moving to Canberra in 1974 and eventually Newcastle in 2008, where he died in 2011.

Education

Career

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Purification and study of pituitary hormones with Alan Wallace.

Extended collaboration with Professor Leslie Lazarus and Dr Margaret Stuart of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research.

Novel method to protect food protein from breakdown in the rumen with Dr Trevor Scott

Polyunsaturated milk, cheese and meat products

Patents

Scientific administration

Endocrine society of Australia foundation member (1958) and President 1962-74.

Retirement

Work with Dr Jim Watts, originator of soft rolling skin merino selection process.

Scientific archive

Unusually, his experimental scientific career is well documented. The extensive records and effects have been bequeathed to the National Library of Australia. The NLA index entry is .

Honors

References

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