Person

Taylor, Mervyn Coombe (1908 - 1981)

Born
17 March 1908
Sulphur Creek, Tasmania, Australia
Died
13 October 1981
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Occupation
Physicist and Biochemist

Summary

Mervyn Taylor worked for around twenty-one years at the Food Preservation and Transport Division of CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - later CSIRO) and at the Australian National University. With the former he was a research physicist and with the latter, an electron-microscopist and a Visiting Fellow.

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Chronology

1929 - 1936
Career position - School Teacher at various schools in Tasmania
1937 - 1938
Career position - Research Scholar, University of Tasmania
1939
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Tasmania
1939 - 1960
Career position - Physicist at CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) / CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Section of Food Preservation and Transport
1945
Education - Masters of Science (M.Sc.), University of Tasmania
1960 - 1971
Career position - Electronmicroscopist at John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University in Canberra
1971 - 1981
Career position - Visiting Fellow in Physical Biochemistry, Australian National University

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