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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-09-04 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-06-11 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002933b.htm person Holmes Bruce Morell AACR2 17 October 1916 2 April 1954 Applied chemist Bruce Holmes worked for the CSIR/O Building Materials Research Section, then the CSIRO Division of Building Research 1946-1954. At the time of his death he was Senior Principal Research Officer of the Division of Building Research. He was interested in the deterioration of building materials in hot climates.

Educated University of Melbourne (BSc 1937, MSc 1939). CSIR (work on use of charcoal for producer gas), Commonwealth Government Explosives Factory, Works Executive Officer, J. Kitchen & Sons Pty Ltd, sub-lieutenant, later lieutenant of the Anti-Submarine Branch, R.A.N.V.R. 1942-1945, CSIR/O Building Materials Research Section (later Division) 1946-1950, CSIRO Division of Building Research 1950-1954.

 Holmes, Walter Morell (1883 - 1955)

Walter was uncle to Bruce

 Holmes, Andrew Bruce (1943 - )

Bruce was Andrew's father

 CSIRO Division of Building Research [I], Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1950 - 1971)

Senior Principal Research Officer 1946 - 1954

 Holmes, Bruce Morell (19161017-19540402)

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 'Holmes, Bruce Morell', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Holmes, Bruce Morell Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation