Person
Taylor, Mervyn Coombe (1908 - 1981)
- Born
- 17 March 1908
Sulphur Creek, Tasmania, Australia - Died
- 13 October 1981
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Occupation
- Physicist and Biochemist
Summary
Mervyn Taylor worked for around twenty-one years at the Food Preservation and Transport Division of CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - later CSIRO) and at the Australian National University. With the former he was a research physicist and with the latter, an electron-microscopist and a Visiting Fellow.
Details
Chronology
- 1929 - 1936
- Career position - School Teacher at various schools in Tasmania
- 1937 - 1938
- Career position - Research Scholar at the University of Tasmania
- 1939
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Tasmania
- 1939 - 1960
- Career position - Physicist at CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) / CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Section of Food Preservation and Transport
- 1945
- Education - Masters of Science (M.Sc.) completed at the University of Tasmania
- 1960 - 1971
- Career position - Electronmicroscopist at John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University in Canberra
- 1971 - 1981
- Career position - Visiting Fellow in Physical Biochemistry at the Australian National University
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Published resources
Resources
- 'Taylor, Mervyn Coombe (1908-1981)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476167. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Taylor, Mervyn Coombe', 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/P001822p.htm. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 1 March 2018
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