Cyril Harold Goulden (2 June 1897, in Bridgend, Wales – 4 February 1981, in Ottawa) was an eminent Welsh/Canadian geneticist, statistician and agronomist who earned his PhD at the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Herbert Kendall Hayes.
[1] Son of a homesteader, Goulden took the course for farmers at the University of Saskatchewan and went on to do a PhD in plant breeding before becoming chief cereal breeder at the Dominion Rust Research Laboratory, Winnipeg, in 1925.
On May 14, 1954 when receiving an Honorary Degree from his alma mater, Goulden was greeted thus:[2] Eminent Chancellor: I present to you a man whose name is indeed golden in the ears of prairie farmers, because he makes two stems of wheat grow where previously one had sickened and remained barren.
A distinguished alumnus of this university, Goulden was for many years in charge of the breeding of cereals at the Federal Rust Research Laboratory in Winnipeg.
Eminent Chancellor, on behalf of the Council and Senate of this university I ask that you confer on Cyril Harold Goulden the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa.He also developed 6 varieties of rust-resistant oats.