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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes updated 2026-02-02 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001572b.htm person Gepp Herbert William AACR2 28 September 1877 14 April 1954 Place of Birth Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Place of Death Kangaroo Ground, South Australia, Australia Metallurgist Industrialist Sir Herbert Gepp helped solve the great metallurgical problems of the mining industry in the 1900s and was an apostle of the role of science in industry, government and the economy. He helped establish the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) through active engagement with its predecessor bodies and advisory councils. He was involved in the foundation of the Australian Chemical Institute (later RACI) and promoted enlightened labour policies in industry. [28 September 1877] [14 April 1954] Award - Gold Medal, London parent institution of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1893 1905 Career position - Junior Chemist, Australian Explosives and Chemical Company 1905 1906 Career position - Chemist, Zinc Corporation Limited, Broken Hill 1907 1914 Career position - Manager, de Bavay's Treatment Company Limited 1915 1917 Career position - Australian Government, Zinc sales and munitions manufacture investigations in the United States of America 1917 1926 Career position - General Manager, Electrolytic Zinc Company 1924 Career Position - President, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1926 1930 Career position - Chairman, Commonwealth Development and Migration Commission 1930 1936 Career position - Part-time Consultant, Commonwealth Government of Australia 1931 1936 Career position - Technical Consultant, Australian Paper Manufacturers Limited 1936 1950 Career position - General Manager, Australian Paper Manufacturers Limited 1937 1937 Career position - Member, Australian National Reseach Council [by being a Fellow of ANZAAS resident in Australia] 1937 1937 Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) 1949 1950 Career position - President, Australian Chemical Institute 1950 Career Position - President, Society of Chemical Industry of Victoria Australian Explosives and Chemical Company Ltd (1875 - 1897)

Chemist 1893 - 1905.

 Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) (1930 - )

Fellow 1937 -

 Conference convened by the Prime Minister, S.M. Bruce, to consider the reorganisation of the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry, 30 May and 1 June 1925

Representative of Tasmania

 Advisory Council of Science and Industry, Commonwealth of Australia (1916 - 1920)

Ex Officio Member, Executive Committee 1918 - 1920; Acting Chairman, State Committee Tasmania 1918 - 1920

 State Committee Tasmania, Advisory Council of Science and Industry (1916 - 1920)

Member 1916 - 1920

 Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry, Commonwealth of Australia (1920 - 1926)

Member, Provisional General Advisory Council 1920 - 1926

 Australian National Research Council (ANRC) (1919 - 1955)

Member 1937 -

 The Institute Medal, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (1935 - )

Awarded the Medal 1939. "In recognition of his services to mining and metallurgy and particularly in connection with the development of flotation processes in the treatment of complex sulphide areas and with the establishment of the electrolytic zinc industry in Australia."

 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Commonwealth of Australia (1926 - 1949)

Helped in the establishment of CSIR

 Amalgamated Zinc (de Bavay's) Ltd (1909 - ?)

Manager 1907 - 1914.

 Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia (1916 - ?)

General Manager 1917 - 1926.

 Australian Paper Manufacturers Ltd (APM) (1860s - 1986)

General Manager 1936 - 1950; Technical consultant 1931 - 1936.

 Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (1893 - )

President 1924.

 Society of Chemical Industry of Victoria (SCIV) (1900 - )

President 1950.

 Zinc Corporation Limited (1905 - 1949)

Chemist 1905 - 1906.

 Australian Chemical Institute (ACI) (1917 - 1953)

President 1949 - 1950

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 Gepp, Herbert (1877-1954)

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 'Gepp, Herbert William', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Gepp, Herbert William Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Engineering Heritage : Biographies Engineering Heritage : Biographies Engineering Heritage Australia 2024 Engineering Heritage Australia : wiki website Book: The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 Currie, George; Graham, John The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 Melbourne CSIRO 1966 Report: Report of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Advisory Council of Science and Industry: for the year ended 30th June 1918 Advisory Council of Science and Industry Report of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Advisory Council of Science and Industry: for the year ended 30th June 1918 Melbourne Government of the Commonwealth of Australia 1918 Book Section: Gepp, Sir Herbert William (1877-1954), mining metallurgist and manager, public servant, industrialist and publicist Kennedy, B. E. Gepp, Sir Herbert William (1877-1954), mining metallurgist and manager, public servant, industrialist and publicist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1981 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 640-642 Resource Section: Gepp, Herbert William Gepp, Herbert William Australian Science Archives Project 1995 Physics in Australia to 1945 R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham Journal Article: Post-war Australia (Paper) Gepp, Herbert Post-war Australia (Paper) 1949 Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers 1944-1948 Journal Article: Ian William Wark 1899-1985 Rees, A. L. G. Ian William Wark 1899-1985 1987 Historical Records of Australian Science 6 4 533-548 Herbert William Gepp - Records National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection Herbert William Gepp - Records MS 390 1904 - 1949 Letter book, 1904-07, written while employed by the Australian Explosives and Chemical Company, Victoria and later the Zinc Corporation, Broken Hill; other records including Australian passports and credentials 1926-49. 0.07 m Charles Denton Kemp - Records National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection Charles Denton Kemp - Records MS 1548 1963 - 1964 Letters written to C. D. Kemp when he was writing a book of essays on several people including Sir Herbert Gepp and Sir Walter Massy-Greene. The letters are recollections of one or other of these men and are written by: John Reynolds, A. E. Brand, Hugh Brain, D. H. Drummond MHR, Sir John Latham, Frederick Sheddan, C. J. Campbell, M. M. Garret, Noel W. Lamidey, Sir Samuel Wadham, W. G. Purdie. 19 pages