Person
Dickson, Bertram Thomas (1886 - 1982)
CMG
- Born
- 20 May 1886
Leicester, Leicestershire, England - Died
- 22 July 1982
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Agricultural scientist and Science administrator
Summary
Bert Dickson was a plant pathologist noted for his research into mosaic diseases. In 1952 he was awarded he Farrer Memorial Medal for his work in this field. Between 1928 and 1951 Dickson was successively Chief of the CSIR(O) Divisions of Economic Botany and Plant Industry.
Details
Chronology
- 1914 - 1918
- Military service - First World War. Served with the British Army in France
- 1919 - 1926
- Career position - Chair of Economic Botany, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 1926 - 1927
- Career position - Chair of Plant Pathology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 1928 - 1929
- Career position - Chief, CSIR Division of Economic Botany
- 1929 - 1951
- Career position - Chief, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry
- 1930
- Career event - Elected Member (Botany and Forestry), Australian National Research Council
- 1937
- Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
- 1952
- Award - Farrer Memorial Medal, Farrer Memorial Trust
- 1958 - 1982
- Award - Life Member, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science
- 1960
- Award - Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) - Chairman of the Council of the Canberra University College
Related entries
Published resources
Newspaper Articles
- Burton, Herbert, 'Dickson, Bertram Thomas (Bert) (1886-1982)', ANU Reporter (1982), 5. http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/dickson-bertram-thomas-bert-311. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q36515470. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/37960746. Details
- 'Dickson, Bertram Thomas (1886-19820722)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473440. Details
Resource Sections
- Wolff, Helen, 'Bertram Thomas (Bert) Dickson [1886 - 1982]', in CSIROpedia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 2020. https://csiropedia.csiro.au/bertram-dickson/. Details
See also
- Fenner, Frank ed., History of Microbiology in Australia (Melbourne: Australian Society for Microbiology, 1990), 624 pp. Details
Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 7 August 2024
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