THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, April 29, 1971
Dr. A. T. Wallace, assistant dean with the Florida Agricultural Experiment Stations, and a scientist of international reputation, died of cancer Sunday following a long illness. He was 49.
Dr. Wallace was known to many people of Flagler County as he has maintained a summer residence at Flagler Beach for a number of years.
Dr. Wallace was born in Millen, Ga., and came to the University of Florida in 1950 as an assistant professor of agronomy. He was promoted rapidly due to his outstanding teaching, research and administrative ability.
In 1968 Dr. Wallace received the Gamma Sigma Delta Senior faculty award as the state's outstanding professor and researcher in plant breeding. He served as professor of the university's Plant Science Section for six years and as head of the university’s cross-discipline genetic program before being named assistant dean of Agricultural Experiment Stations in October, 1968.
Dr. Wallace was internationally known for his research in plant breeding, genetic, and radiation biology. He was one of three American scientists, who took part in international genetics meetings behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany in 1967.
He is survived by his wife, Aurelia D. Wallace, a daughter, Kay 12, and a son, Bob, 14.
