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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2012-02-03 human Rebecca Rigby updated 2025-10-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004946b.htm person Demediuk Taisa AACR2 Halatschuk, Taisa 28 October 1922 31 October 2011 Place of Birth Matzejow (now Lukiv), Poland (now Ukraine) Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Chemist Dr Taisa Demediuk was a research chemist at the CSIRO Division of Building Research (the CSIRO Building Material Research Section from 1950) located in Highett, Victoria between 1949 and 1958. She specialised in the problem of the hydration and carbonation of limes used in building processes which caused instability and eventually structural failure. She experimented with the addition of magnesium chloride, magnesium sulphate, resulting in more stable basic salts. This process was much more affordable and simple than previously established ways of stabilising the substance. In 1952 her research findings on these experiments were published in Letters to Nature. Her research resulted in the manufacture of building materials. Dr Demediuk resigned from the CSIRO in 1958 after an application for unpaid leave was denied. 1939 1939 Life event - Fled from Poland to Vienna 1940 1945 Education - Diploma of Chemistry, University of Vienna (1940-44) and the Technical University of Prague (1944-45) 1946 1946 Life event - Married Peter Demediuk, an engineer 1948 1948 Life event - Emigrated to Australia with husband and family 1948 1948 Education - Doctor of Natural Philosophy, University of Erlangen in West Germany 1949 1953 Career position - Researcher Officer Grade I at CSIRO Division of Building Research, Highett, Victoria 1952 1952 Career event - A Method for Overcoming 'Unsoundness' in Magnesian Limes published in Letters to Nature 1953 1955 Career position - Researcher Officer Grade II at CSIRO Division of Building Research, Highett, Victoria 1955 1958 Career position - Research Officer at CSIRO Division of Building Research, Highett, Victoria CSIR/O Building Material Research Section, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1945 - 1950)

Research Officer 1949 - 1950

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

Research Officer 1950 - 1958

 Demediuk, Taisa (19221028-20111031)

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 'Demediuk, Taisa', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Demediuk, Taisa Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: From Matzejow to Highett: the Remarkable Career of Taisa Demediuk Demediuk, Barbara and Spurling, Tom From Matzejow to Highett: the Remarkable Career of Taisa Demediuk 2012 Chemistry in Australia June 30-1