Person
Gepp, Herbert William (1877 - 1954)
- Born
- 28 September 1877
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 14 April 1954
Kangaroo Ground, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Metallurgist and Industrialist
Summary
Sir Herbert Gepp helped solve the great metallurgical problems of the mining industry in the 1900s and was an apostle of the role of science in industry, government and the economy. He helped establish CSIR and the RACI and promoted enlightened labour policies in industry.
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Chronology
- Award - Gold Medal, London parent institution of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
- 1893 - 1905
- Career position - Junior Chemist, Australian Explosives and Chemical Company
- 1905 - 1906
- Career position - Chemist, Zinc Corporation Limited, Broken Hill
- 1907 - 1914
- Career position - Manager, de Bavay's Treatment Company Limited
- 1915 - 1917
- Career position - Australian Government, Zinc sales and munitions manufacture investigations in the United States of America
- 1917 - 1926
- Career position - General Manager, Electrolytic Zinc Company
- 1924 -
- Career Position - President, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
- 1926 - 1930
- Career position - Chairman, Commonwealth Development and Migration Commission
- 1930 - 1936
- Career position - Part-time Consultant, Commonwealth Government of Australia
- 1931 - 1936
- Career position - Technical Consultant, Australian Paper Manufacturers Limited
- 1936 - 1950
- Career position - General Manager, Australian Paper Manufacturers Limited
- 1937
- Career position - Member, Australian National Reseach Council [by being a Fellow of ANZAAS resident in Australia]
- 1937
- Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
- 1949 - 1950
- Career position - President, Australian Chemical Institute
- 1950 -
- Career Position - President, Society of Chemical Industry of Victoria
Related entries
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
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. pages 37, 59, 96, 100-101, 104, 131, 132, 134, 140, 142-143, 145-146, 148 (photograph). Details
Book Sections
- Kennedy, B. E., 'Gepp, Sir Herbert William (1877-1954), mining metallurgist and manager, public servant, industrialist and publicist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 640-642. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080656b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Gepp, Herbert, 'Post-war Australia (Paper)', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers 1944-1948 (1949). http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24916. Details
Reports
- 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/Q24250459. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/7129451. Details
- 'Gepp, Herbert (1877-1954)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-635387. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Gepp, Herbert William', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001572p.htm. Details
See also
- Rees, A. L. G., 'Ian William Wark 1899-1985', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (4) (1987), 533-548. https://doi.org/10.1071HR9870640533. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 24 April 2018
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