Hugh Whitehead (scientist)

Hugh Robinson Whitehead OBE (11 November 1899 – 13 March 1983) was a New Zealand biochemist, microbiologist and scientific administrator.

He was the director of the Dairy Research Institute in Palmerston North, which is now the Fonterra Research and Development Centre.

[1][2] Between 1933 and 1935, Whitehead and his colleagues identified a bacteriophage as the cause of failure in cheese starter isolates, which had significant, positive commercial outcomes for the New Zealand dairy industry.

[1][3] In the 1964 Queen's Birthday Honours, Whitehead was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

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