Person

Hamer, Alan William (1917 - 2012)

FTSE

Born
27 November 1917
"Appin", Kew, Victoria, Australia
Died
3 July 2012
Epworth Hospital, Richmond, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Business executive and Chemical engineer

Summary

Alan Hamer had a long career with Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand Limited (ICIANZ), commencing in research in the early 1940s and rising to be Managing director and Deputy chairman in the 1970s.

His early research and career was in the United Kingdom, at the University of Oxford and with Imperial Chemical Industries (United Kingdom), where he worked on the neutralisation of carbon monoxide to save bomber crews from being poisoned. Later in the war he returned to Australia and working with ICIANZ, helped to design a plant for synthesising phenothiazine from diphenylamine. The plant was started up in 1943 and operated well for 20 years until phenothiazine was superseded by new generations of anthelmintic drugs.

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Chronology

1938
Award - Victoria's Rhodes Scholar 1938
1938 - 1941
Education - Magdalen College, University of Oxford
1941
Education - Bachelor of Arts (Chemistry) (Hons), School of Natural Science, University of Oxford
1941 - 1942
Career position - Imperial Chemical Industries (United Kingdom)
1942
Career event - Member, Australian Chemical Institute (MACI)
1942 - 1950
Career position - Chemical engineer, Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand Limited (ICIANZ)
1943
Career event - Designed and constructed a plant (with F. Lamont, and I. J. Robinson) for synthesising phenothiazine from diphenylamine
1948
Life event - Married Margaret Angas
1950 - 1956
Career position - Chemical group development manager, Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand Limited (ICIANZ)
1956 - 1959
Career position - Technical controller, Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand Limited (ICIANZ)
1959 - 1968
Career position - Executive director, Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand Limited (ICIANZ)
1968
Career event - Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI)
1968 - 1971
Career position - Chairman and Managing Director, Imperial Chemical Industries (UK) companies in India [When Indira Gandhi was fostering a transition from expatriate to national leadership at all levels]
1970s
Career position - Chairman, Consolm Fertilizers Ltd
1970s
Career position - Chairman, Fibremakers
1970s
Career position - Chairman, Australian Fertilizers Ltd
1971 - 1979
Career position - Managing director / Deputy chairman, Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand Limited (ICIANZ)
1972 - 1980
Career position - President, Lincoln Institute of Health Science
1977 - 1979
Career position - Chairman, Australian Industrial Development Association
1978 - 1987
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
1980s
Career position - Director, EZ industries
1980s
Career position - Director, Tubemakers of Australia Ltd
1980s
Career position - Director, Reckitt and Colman Australia
1987
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Awarded by AATS 1978]
2001
Award - Centenary Medal - For service to Australian society in applied chemistry

Colleague

  • Lamont, F.

    Together, Alan Hamer, F. Lamont and Ian Robinson helped to successfully design and construct ICIANZ's plant for synthesising phenothiazine from diphenylamine.

  • Robinson, Ian J. (1910 - 1995)

    Together, Alan Hamer, F. Lamont and Ian Robinson helped to successfully design and construct ICIANZ's plant for synthesising phenothiazine from diphenylamine.

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Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes

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