Biographical entry Heath, Bernard Verrell (1904 - 1984)

Summary

Bernard Verrell Heath founded his own Consulting Chemist and Public Analyst Laboratory, Bernard Heath & Associates in 1928. He was heavily involved in the establishment of the first Food Science and Technology course at the Melbourne Technical College (now Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) and was also one of the first part-time lecturers in this course.

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c. 1924 - 1928

Career position - Scientist with the Health Department laboratories

1928 - ?

Career position - Bernard Heath & Associates, Consulting Chemist and Public Analyst Laboratory established

1935 - 1939

Career position - Food Scientist at Smedley's Food Cannery and a flavour manufacturing concern in England

1939 - 1945

Career position - War service with the Chemical Warfare Section of the Australian Army

c. 1946 - 1957?

Career position - Lecturer (part-time) in Food Microbiology at the University of Melbourne

1958 - 1959

Career position - Adviser to the Jamaican Government on food laws

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Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Heath, Bernard Verrell', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475525. Details