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Early life Ron was born on 14 June 1930 and was educated in Canada. He previously worked with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, the Canadian Department or Mines and Technical Surveys, the United States Bureau of Mines, Corning Glass Works and McMaster University. Time at CSIRO Ron joined the Engineering Ceramics and Refractories Laboratory of […]

Biography Arthur Gaskin retired in October 1983 after a long career with CSIRO, his last 21 years as foundation Chief of the Division of Applied Mineralogy (1962-70) and of the Division of Mineralogy (1970-83). During this period, he developed and guided the substantial expansion of research in CSIRO in the fields of mineralogy and geochemistry. […]

Early life Dr Roy Montague Green was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire on 25 October 1935 and attended Ilkeston Grammar School. Tertiary education and early career Roy completed a BSc (Hons) in physics at Liverpool University and then moved to Canada to work as a trainee engineer with Westinghouse in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He then obtained his […]

Biography Dr Thilak Gunatillake was one of the key scientists involved in the design and synthesis of polyurethane biomaterials Elast-Eon® and NovoSorb®. AorTech and PolyNovo Biomaterials, two spin-off companies based in Melbourne, are commercialising the two technologies for biomedical devices and implants. Dr Gunatillake joined CSIRO in 1988 to initiate a research program to improve […]

Donald Charles Gibson was born on 7 July 1940 at Roslyn Hospital in Lindfield, NSW. His father was WHH Gibson, a science and engineering graduate of the University of Sydney who had joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering as a Demonstrator in 1915 and retired as a Reader in 1957. His mother was Irene Hope […]

Hugh McLeod Gordon was born on 28 March 1909 in Armidale, New South Wales. He died on 23 April 2002, at Manly, New South Wales. His father, Hugh Hungerford (Bob) Gordon was a grazier in the Armidale district of New South Wales who purchased the property Elsinore in 1911. Hugh’s mother was Frederica Marion Taylor […]

John Anderson Gilruth was born on 17 February 1871 at Auchmithie, a fishing village near Arbroath, Forfar, Scotland, second child of Andrew Gilruth and his wife Ann, nee Anderson. His father was a tenant farmer of the Carnegie family, the earls of Northesk. His mother, a teacher before marriage, was a woman of character and […]

Biography Ronald Giovanelli was born in Grafton, New South Wales, on 30 April 1915, the only child of Irwin Wilfred Giovanelli and his wife Gertrude May, nee Gordon. Ronald’s father was one of the first teachers at Grafton High School. During his career as a mathematics teacher Irwin became well-known and highly respected throughout New […]

Biography Andrew Ashley Green was born on 25 December 1946 in Perth, Western Australia. His father Ernest Joseph Green was an ENT Surgeon in Perth and his mother a nurse from Victoria. His primary and secondary schooling (1956-63) was at Scotch College, Perth. He obtained his BSc with First Class Honours in Chemistry in 1976 […]