Person
Mann, Edward Alexander (1874 - 1951)
- Born
- 11 August 1874
Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 15 November 1951
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Chemist
Summary
Edward Mann became Government Analyst in Western Australia in 1895 and in 1902 Agricultural Chemist. He left this position in 1921 to become a politician and later a broadcaster with the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
Related entries
Archival resources
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies
- Edward Alexander Mann - Records, 1916 - 1920; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies. Details
Published resources
Books
- Currie, George; Graham, John, The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1966), 203 pp, https://ebooks.publish.csiro.au/content/origins-csiro. Details
Book Sections
- Andrews, E. M., 'Mann, Edward Alexander (1874-1951), chemist, politician and broadcaster' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 392-393. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100385b.htm. Details
Reports
- Advisory Council of Science and Industry, Report of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Advisory Council of Science and Industry: covering the period from the date of the appointment of the Executive Committee (14th April, 1916) to the 30th June 1917 (Melbourne: Commonwealth Government Printer, 1917). https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2788471586. Details
- Advisory Council of Science and Industry, Report of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Advisory Council of Science and Industry: for the year ended 30th June 1918 (Melbourne: Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1918), 64 pp. http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2004795988. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5344319. Details
- 'Mann, Edward Alexander (1874-1951)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1466274. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 21 August 2019
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