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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-09-18 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-07-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002952b.htm person Jewell William Ralph AACR2 15 July 1894 28 January 1975 Place of Birth Geelong, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Glen Iris, Victoria, Australia Chemist Metallurgist William Jewell headed the State Laboratories of various Victorian government departments. He played a prominent part in reorganising the beet sugar industry at Maffra and advised the Commonwealth Government on the economics and feasibility of producing power alcohol from cereals. In association with the Commonwealth Department of Primary Industry, he played a prominent part in the introduction of Commonwealth food specifications and standard methods of analysis for a wide variety of foods used by the Australian and allied armed forces.

Jewell studied metallurgy at the Universities of Melbourne and Sheffield (UK) and went to work for the Ministry of Munitions in Britain in1915. Upon returning to Australia, he was appointed agricultural research chemist with the Victorian State Service. Next he became Director of the state chemical laboratories of the Departments of Agriculture, Health and Mines. Jewell was an original member of the Council of the National Association of Testing Authorities, and continued as Victorian representative and chairman until his retirement. He was President of the Australian Chemical Institute from 1945 to 1946.

1945 1946 Career position - President, Australian Chemical Institute Australian Chemical Institute (ACI) (1917 - 1953)

President 1945 - 1946

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