Posts by Helen Wolff

Tertiary education and early career Alan Donald graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Veterinary Science (Honours) […]

Enid was the first female appointed to the Physical Chemistry Section of the CSIR Division of Industrial Chemistry at the age of 21.

Early life Enid Campbell Plante was born in Albury, New South Wales on 8 October 1918. Enid was Head Prefect […]

Biography Dr Brian Walker is an Honorary Research Fellow at CSIRO Land & Water and an Honorary Professor at the […]

I. H. Boas was one of Australia's most successful research directors. It is to him, as much as to anyone else, that the world owes thanks for the fact that paper can now he produced from hardwoods. Everyone else said it was completely impossible. (Ian W. Wark, 1968)

Dr Taisa Demediuk began her chemistry career amidst the upheavals of wartime Western Europe. In 1950s Australia, she applied her great intellect and character to almost a decade of research at the CSIRO.

Early life Wilfred (Wilf) Ernest Ewers was born in Perth on 23 December 1919 and did his primary education at […]

Early life and education Dr Alfred Howard was born in Melbourne and graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) in […]

Mr. Lightfoot came to Australia in 1906 and joined the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics where he was responsible for establishing the Bureau's Labour and Industrial Branch and extending it to the main industrial centres of the Commonwealth.