Biographical entry Price, James Robert (Jerry) (1912 - 1999)

Summary

(Sir) James Robert (Jerry) Price was Chair of the CSIRO, 1970-77, Chief Executive Officer 1966-70 and Chief of the Division of Organic Chemistry 1961-66.

Details

Born Kadina, South Australia, 25 March 1912. Died Melbourne, 8 March 1999. KBE 1976. Educated University of Adelaide (BSc 1933, MSc 1935, DSc 1954) and Oxford (DPhil ). Head, Chemistry, Section, John Innes Horticultural Institution 1937-39; work on propellants and explosives, Ministry of Supply 1939-45; CSIRO Division of Industrial Chemistry from 1945, Officer-in-charge, Organic Chemistry Section 1960-61, Chief, CSIRO Division of Organic Chemistry 1961-66, member of the Executive, CSIRO 1966-70, Chairman 1970-77. H.G. Smith Memorial Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1956; Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1959; Leighton Memorial Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1969. Chairman of Organizing Committee, XXIInd Congress of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the XIIth International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, Sydney, 1969. President, Victorian Branch, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1959-60; President, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1962-64.

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Published resources

Journal Articles

• Collins, David J.; Simpson, Gregory W.; Solomon, David H.; Spurling, Thomas H., 'James Robert Price, 1912-1999', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 15, no. 1, 2004, pp. 95-120. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR03012.htm. Details
• Price, J. R., 'Alexander Thomas Dick 1911-1982', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 3, 1986, pp. 393-397. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9860630393.htm. Details
• Price, J. R.; Lamberton, J. A. and Culvenor, C. C. J., 'The Australian Phytochemical Survey: Historical Aspects of the CSIRO Search for New Drugs in Australian Plants', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 9, no. 4, 1993, pp. 335-356. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9930940335.htm. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Price, Robert', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1016042. Details

See also

• 'Dr Keith Thomas Henry Farrer OBE MA DSc FTSE - Biographical Note', Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, http://www.atse.org.au/index.php?sectionid=648. Details
• Walsh, A. and Willis, J. B., 'Albert Lloyd George Rees 1916-1989', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 9, no. 1, 1992, pp. 31-47. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9920910031.htm. Details