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Author
Gillespie, James
Title
Clements, Frederick William (Fred) (1904-1995), public-health physician, researcher, and educator
In
Australian dictionary of biography, volume 19: 1991 - 1995 A-Z
Editor
Melanie Nolan
Imprint
Australian National University Press, Canberra, 2021
Url
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/clements-frederick-william-fred-28121
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Published online in 2019.

Abstract

Extract: "Between 1938 and 1949 Clements was director of the Australian Institute of Anatomy, Canberra, and from 1938 to 1969 he was chair of the nutrition committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council. During World War II he worked on the Australian Food Council's food rationing standards. The institute set new standards in training survey researchers, leading to a major national study of diet in 1944. His research group built tables of the composition of foods. Students in the institute's nutrition diploma staffed expeditions to the Territory of Papua-New Guinea (1947) and northern Australia (1947), and a nutrition unit from the institute joined the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land in 1948. Against opposition, he successfully argued for the inclusion of women on the research teams for each of the three expeditions."

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