Biographical entry Wallace, Wilfred Nigel Willoughby (1908 - )

Summary

Wifred Nigel W. Wallace worked at numerous industrial plants around Australia. His longest post was as Chief Chemist at Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand (ICIANZ) (1953-1970).

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Events

1930

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Sydney

1935 - 1940

Career position - Chief Chemist at Lysaght Bros. in Sydney

1940 - 1943

Career position - Head of Laboratories at the Explosive Factory in Ballarat, Victoria

1943 - 1945

Career position - Directorate of Explosives Supply in Melbourne

1945 - 1948

Career position - Quality Control Engineer at Phillips Electrical Industries in Sydney and Adelaide

1948 - 1953

Career position - Chief Analyst at Taubmans Chemicals in Sydney

1953 - 1970

Career position - Chief Chemist at Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand (ICIANZ) Rural Factory in Villawood, New South Wales

1970 -

Career position - Consulting Chemist in Sydney

Published resources

Online Resources

• 'Wallace, Wifred Nigel Willoughby', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001835p.htm. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Wallace, Wifred Nigel Willoughby', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473511. Details