Biographical entry Newnham, Ivan Edgar (1919 - 1986)

Summary

Ivan Edgar Newnham was Director of the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Institute of Earth Resources from 1979. He was previously Chief of CSIRO's Division of Mineral Chemistry (1961-1970) and Director of the Mineral Research Laboratories (1971-1978). During his thirty-seven year tenure with CSIRO he made numerous significant contributions, including the introduction of research planning for commercialisation.

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1947 - 1961

Career position - Research Scientist at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)

1961 - 1970

Career position - Chief of the CSIRO Division of Mineral Chemistry

1971 - 1978

Career position - Director of CSIRO Mineral Research Laboratories

1979 - 1983

Career position - Director of CSIRO Institute of Earth Resources

1983

Career position - Retired as Director due to ill health

1983 - 1984

Career position - Senior Scientist (not official title) at CSIRO Institute of Earth Resources

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Archival resources

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies

• Ivan Edgar Newnham - Records, 1938 - 1983, Series 1115 - 1121; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies. Details

Published resources

Newspaper Articles

• North, Jenifer, 'Vale Ivan Newnham', CoResearch, CSIRO's staff newspaper, no. 297, November 1986. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Newnham, Ivan Edgar', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475701. Details

See also

• Hyde, B. G. and Day, P, 'John Stuart Anderson', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 9, no. 2, 1992. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9920920127.htm. Details
• Rees, A. L. G., 'Ian William Wark 1899-1985', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 4, 1987, pp. 533-548. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9870640533.htm. Details