Person

Christian, Clifford Stuart (Chris) (1907 - 1996)

FTSE CMG

Born
19 December 1907
St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Died
1996
Occupation
Agricultural scientist and Science administrator
Alternative Names
  • Christian, Chris (Also known as)

Summary

Clifford Christian was Chief of the Division of Land Research, CSIRO 1957-1960 and member of the CSIRO Executive 1960-1972. He and a colleague, Alan Stewart (qv), proposed a land system survey involving the then revolutionary concept of using air photographs as an analogue model of the land resource to identify broad scale recurring patterns of land units, and then determining their characteristics by stereoscopic examination and field traverse sampling.

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Educated Universities of Queensland (BScAgr) and Minnesota (MS); research on plant genetics and plant breeding, CSIRO 1930-43.

Chronology

1930 - 1931
Award - Training in plant genetics and allied subjects at University of Minnesota, U.S.A. (with short periods at other institutions), Science and Industry Endowment Fund
1943 - 1946
Career position - Deputy Senior Agrostologist, CSIR
1946 - 1950
Career position - Officer in charge, North Australian Regional Survey
1950 - 1956
Career position - Officer in charge, CSIRO Land Research and Regional Survey Section
1954
Career position - Commonwealth Liaison Officer for Arid Zone Research
1956
Career position - Editor, Arid zone newsletter
1957 - 1960
Career position - Chief, CSIRO Division of Land Research and Regional Survey
1960 - 1972
Career position - Member of the Executive, CSIRO
1960 - 1996
Award - Fellow, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science
1961
Career position - President, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science
1961
Award - Australian Medal of Agricultural Science, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science
1969
Award - Farrer Memorial Medal, Farrer Memorial Trust
1971
Award - Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
1972 - 1977
Career position - Consultant ecologist
1975 - 1977
Career position - Adviser (Ecology and Land Use) to Ranger Uranium Environment Inquiry
1975 - 1987
Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FRS)
1976
Award - Doctor of Agricultural Science, honoris causa, University of Queensland
1987 - 1996
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Foundation Fellow AATS 1975]

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See also

  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_c.html. Details
  • Friedel, Margaret H.; and Morton, Stephen R., 'A history of CSIRO'S Central Australian Laboratory, 1: 1953-80: pastoral land research', Historical records of Australian Science, 34 (1) (2023), 36-49. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR22006. Details
  • Friedel, Margaret H.; and Morton, Stephen R., 'A history of CSIRO'S Central Australian Laboratory, 1: 1953-80: pastoral land research', Historical records of Australian Science, 34 (1) (2023), 36-49. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR22006. Details
  • Smith, Susan and Spurling, Thomas H., 'The Science and Industry Endowment Fund: supporting the development of Australian science', Historical Records of Australian Science, 26 (1) (2015), 58-83, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR14027. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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