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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-05-25 human Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn updated 2026-01-06 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003773b.htm person McWilliam Ian Gordon AO AACR2 4 November 1933 9 May 2020 Place of Birth Griffith, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Physicist Ian Gordon McWilliam developed a flame ionisation detector in 1957; this was a new gas chromatography tool capable of measuring components of organic chemicals present in one part in 10 million. 1952 1952 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc(Hons)), University of Melbourne 1956 1968 Career position - Head, Physical Methods Section (later Instrument Development Section), ICI Central Research Laboratories 1961 1961 Award - Rennie Memorial Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1962 1962 Award - Grimwade Prize in Industrial Chemistry (jointly with Robert Dewar), Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne 1968 1970 Career position - Shell Research Fellow, Monash University 1970 1973 Career position - Senior Lecturer, Swinburne Technical College 1970 2020 Award - Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1973 1992 Career position - Principal Lecturer in Chemistry, Swinburne Technical College 1974 1974 Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), Monash University 1983 1986 Career position - Chairman, Australian Scientific Industry Association, Victoria 1984 1984 Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for ervice to science and technology 1992 1992 Award - K. L. Sutherland Memorial Medal, Australian Academy of Technological Science and Technology 1992 1998? Career position - Associate Professor in chemistry, Swinburne University of Technology Dewar, Robert Alfred (1908 - 1981) K. L. Sutherland Memorial Medal (1982 - )

Awarded the Medal 1992

 Central Research Laboratories, ICI Australia Ltd (1956 - 1990s)

Head, Physical Methods Section (later Instrument Development Section) 1956 - 1968

 Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) (1953 - )

Fellow 1970 - 2020

 Swinburne University of Technology (1992 - )

Associate Professor in chemistry 1992 - ?1998

 Grimwade Prize in Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne (1906 - )

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1962

 McWilliam, Ian Gordon (1933-)

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 'McWilliam, Ian Gordon', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology McWilliam, Ian Gordon Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Edited Book: Inventive Vics Exhibition Gold, Ergad; Greener, Rosalie (Ed) Inventive Vics Exhibition Melbourne, Victoria Australian Scientific Industry Association 1985 Catalogue of the Exhibition 58 Journal Article: Flame ionization detector for gas chromatography McWilliam, I. G.; and Dewar, R. A. Flame ionization detector for gas chromatography 1958 Nature 181 4611 760 Conference Paper: The Flame Ionization Detector - an Australian Invention McWilliam, I.G. The Flame Ionization Detector - an Australian Invention Melbourne Australian Scientific Industry Association 1983 Detectors and Chromatography Proceedings of an International Conference held at the University of Melbourne from May 30 to June 3 1983, to celebrate the 25thanniversary of the invention of the Flame Ionization Detector by I.G. McWilliam Nicholson, A.J.C. 5-20 Journal Article: The invention, development, and triumph of the flame ionization detector Ettre, Leslie S. The invention, development, and triumph of the flame ionization detector 2002 LcGc North America 20 1 49-60 Journal Article: Ian McWilliam (1933 - 2020): inventor of the flame ionisation detector Spurling, Tom; and Laslett, Bob Ian McWilliam (1933 - 2020): inventor of the flame ionisation detector 2020 Chemistry in Australia 2020 July/August 34 Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Online Melbourne Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2000