P002900
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Person
created
1997-06-30
human
Rosanne Walker
updated
2019-12-13
human
https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002900b.htm
person
Gentles
William Cockburn
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c. 1876
21 July 1954
Place of Birth
Australia
Place of Death
New Plymouth, New Zealand
Industrial chemist
William Gentles worked as a chemist in Australia and New Zealand. For fifteen years he was head of the Wallaroo works laboratory in South Australia and taught at the local School of Mines (1907-1922). Gentles left Wallaroo in 1922 for a two year stint as manger of Upton & Co., Ltd in New South Wales. He then moved to New Zealand to take up a post at Farmers' Fertilizers Ltd, where he remained until he retired. William Gentles was a foundation Associate of the Royal Chemical Institute.
1903
1903
Education - Honours certificate, Sydney Technical College
1907
1921
Career position - Teacher in Chemistry at the School of Mines in Moonta
1907
1922
Career position - Chemist-in-charge at the Wallaroo Works Laboratory of the Wallaroo and Moonta Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd., South Australia
1921
1922
Career position - Registrar of the School of Mines in Moonta
1922
1924
Career position - Manager of the Upton & Co., Ltd. in Alexandria, New South Wales
1924
Career position - Consulting and Manufacturing Chemist to the Farmers' Fertilizers Ltd.in New Plymouth, New Zealand
Gentles, William Cockburn (1876-19540721)
Trove
'Gentles, William Cockburn', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
Gentles, William Cockburn
Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation