Clunies Ross, William Ian (1899 - 1959)

Summary

Sir Ian Clunies Ross was Professor of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney (1940-1946), Member of the Executive of CSIR (1946-1949) and Chairman of CSIRO (1949-1959).

He was a recipient of many awards and honours including appointment as Knight Bachelor (Kt), Gold Medal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England and the James Cook Medal from the Royal Society of New South Wales.

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Chronology

1921

Education - Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc(Hons)), University of Sydney

1922 - 1925

Career position - Walter and Eliza Hall Veterinary Research Fellow

1925

Career position - Lecturer in Veterinary Parasitology, University of Sydney

1926

Career position - Veterinary Parasitologist with CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)

1927

Career event - Elected Associate Member (Veterinary Science), Australian National Research Council

1928

Education - Doctor of Veterinary Science (DVSc), University of Sydney

1929 - 1930

Award - Research in parasitology, Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Imperial University in Tokyo, Science and Industry Endowment Fund

1931 - 1937

Career position - First Officer-in-charge of the McMaster Animal Health Research Laboratory, CSIR

1932

Career event - Elected Member (Veterinary Science), Australian National Research Council

1935 - 1936

Career position - Advisor on the Pastoral Industry for the Department of War Organization of Industry

1937 - 1940

Career position - Australian Member of the International Wool Secretariat in London

1940 - 1946

Career position - Professor of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney

1946 - 1949

Career position - Member of the Executive, CSIR

May 1949 - Jun 1959

Career position - Chairman, CSIRO

1953 - 1994

Award - Petitioner for the Academy, Founding Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1954

Award - Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) - Chairman of the CSIRO

1954

Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt) - Chairman of the CSIRO

1955

Award - Doctor of Laws (LLD), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

1956

Award - James Cook Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Marjory Langridge - Records, MS 207; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies

• Ian Clunies Ross - Records, 1931 - 1959; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Evans, Joanne; McCarthy, Gavan; Stephens, Robin, Centenaries of Australian Science, Discovery and Endeavour: Celebrating Australian Science, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, AustehcWeb, Melbourne, 4 August 1999, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/cent/. Details

Books

• Clunies Ross, I., The responsibility of science and the university in the modern world: an oration delivered on the occasion of the centenary of the University of Sydney and of the twenty-ninth meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Sydney, August 26, 1952 (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1952), 15 pp. Details
• Clunies Ross, I., John Anderson Gilruth: the influence of his life and work on the development of the Livestock Industries of the Commonwealth (Brisbane: Queensland University Press, 1956). Details
• Clunies Ross, Ian, Memoirs and Papers, with Some Fragments of Autobiography. (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1961). Details
• Humphreys, L.R., Clunies Ross: Australian Visionary (Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 1998), 276 pp. Details
• O'Dea, Marjory Colard, Ian Clunies Ross: a Biography (South Melbourne: Hyland House, 1997), 376 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Schedvin, C. B., 'Clunies Ross, Sir William Ian (1899-1959), veterinary scientist and administrator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), pp. 448-451. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130494b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Sir Ian Clunies Ross. A Tribute to his Work for the Sydney University Veterinary School and his Contribution to Veterinary Parasitology', Australian Veterinary Journal, 35 (1959), 379-381. Details
• Clunies Ross, I., 'The Impact of Scientific Advances on Production in the Livestock Industries. Presidential Address', Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, 30 (1954), 215-222. Details
• Francis, J., 'Dr J. A. Gilruth and Sir Ian Clunies Ross - Veterinary Science in Australia 1952-84: Some Personal Reflections', Australian Veterinary Journal, 61 (1984), 372-374. Details
• Gill, D. A., 'Ian Clunies Ross - Visionary and Realist', Australian Veterinary Journal, 44 (10) (1968), 467-480. Details
• Gordon, H. McL., 'Ian Clunies Ross: His publications and the enduring influence of his work', Australian Veterinary Journal, 44 (10) (1968), 467-480. Details
• Gresford, Guy B., 'Obituary: Sir Ian Clunies-Ross', Australian Journal of Science, 22 (3) (1959), 107-108. Details
• Lipson, M., 'Ian Clunies Ross and Wool Textile Research', Australian Veterinary Journal, 44 (10) (1968), 467-480. Details
• Ross, A. I. Clunies, 'Ian Clunies Ross', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 3 (4) (1977), 84-108. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9770340084.htm. Details
• Turner, Helen Newton, 'Ian Clunies Ross: a leader of men', Australian Veterinary Journal, 44 (10) (1968), 467-480. Details
• Winkel, Kenneth D.; Mirtschin, Peter and Pearn, John, 'Twentieth Century Toxinology and Antivenom development in Australia', Toxicon, 48 (7) (2006), 738-754 . Details

Resources

• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/20915757. Details
• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5981214. Details
• Early Chemists of Sydney, 2006, http://members.optusnet.com.au/jph8524/McKern.htm. Details
• 'Clunies Ross, William Ian (18990222-19590620)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1474248. Details
• 'Awarded honorary LLD, 1955', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details

Resource Sections

• Clunies Ross, A. I., 'Ian Clunies Ross 1899-1959', in Australian Academy of Science Biographical Memoirs, Australian Academy of Science, 2006, https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/biographical-memoirs/ian-clunies-ross-1899-1959. Details
• Vella, Greta, 'AAHL portrait collection shows the art of our science', in CSIROscope, Blog, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 22 March 2016, https://blog.csiro.au/aahl-art-science/. Details
• Ward, C., 'Sir Ian Clunies Ross [1899-1959]', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2011, https://csiropedia.csiro.au/Clunies-Ross-Sir-Ian. Details

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
• Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/index_c.html. Details
• Brown, R. Hanbury; Minnett, Harry C; White, Fredrick W. G., 'Edward George Bowen 1911-1991', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (2) (1992), 151-166. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920920151. Details
• French, E. L.; and Stewart, D.F., 'Lionel Bately Bull, 1889-1978', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (4) (1983), 90-110. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9830540090. Details
• Main, A. R., 'Horace Waring, 1910-1980', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (2) (1981), 116-121. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9810520116. Details
• McCann, D. A.; and Batterham, P., 'Australian Genetics: a Brief History', Genetica, 90 (2-3) (1993), 81-114. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01435033. Details
• Morison, Patricia, The Martin spirit: Charles Martin and the foundation of biological science in Australia (Canberra: Halstead Press, 2019), 296 pp. Details
• Norris, K. R., 'Ian Murray Mackerras 1898-1980', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (2) (1981), 98-114. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9810520098. Details
• Sherratt, Tim, 'CSIRO' in Oxford Companion to Australian History, Graeme Davison; John Hirst; Stuart Macintyre, ed. (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 164-165. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/tps/csiro_history.htm. 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
• White, F. W.G., 'Robert Gordon Menzies (1894-1978)', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (1) (1980), 68-102. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9800510068. Details