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Leeper, Geoffrey Winthrop (1903 - 1986)

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Born
5 March 1903
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died
15 December 1986
Occupation
Agricultural chemist

Summary

Geoffrey Leeper worked as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in the Department of Agriculture, University of Melbourne from 1934, and was Professor of Agricultural Chemistry 1962-1969. He wrote four books - two on trace elements, one on soil chemistry and one on soils.

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Chronology

1924
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
1925 - 1926
Career position - Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia
1926
Education - Masters of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
1927
Career position - Temporary Lectureship, University of Adelaide
1927 - 1946
Award - Foundation Member, Australian Chemical Institute
1929
Career position - Rowett Research Institute, Scotland
1930 - 1932
Career position - Research Scholar in Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Melbourne
1933 - 1946
Career position - Lecturer in Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Melbourne
1946 - 1948
Award - Fellow, Australian Chemical Institite
1946 - 1962
Career position - Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Melbourne
1948 - 1953
Award - Honorary Life Fellow, Australian Chemical Institute
1953 - 1986
Award - Honorary Life Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1959 - 1960
Career Position - President, Victoria Branch, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science
1960 - 1986
Award - Fellow, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science
1962 - 1969
Career position - Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Melbourne

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Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • Geoffrey Winthrop Leeper - Records, 1937 - 1986; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Attiwill, P.M.; and Leeper, G.W., Forest soils and nutrient cycles (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1987), 202 pp. Details
  • Leeper, G. W., Six Trace Elements in Soils: Their chemistry as micro-nutrients (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1970), 59 pp. Details

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Edited Books

  • Leeper, G. W. ed., Sir Samuel Wadham (Melbourne: 1956). Details

Journal Articles

  • Leeper, G. W., 'Obituary: Ernst Matthaei', Australian Journal of Science, 29 (6) (1967), 166. Details

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See also

  • Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_l.html. Details
  • Dahlitz, Ray, Secular who's who : a biographical directory of freethinkers, secularists, rationalists, humanists and others involved in Australia's secular movement from 1850 onwards (Balwyn, Victoria: R. Dahlitz, 1994), 192 pp. pp.156-157. Details

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