Person

Morrison, Frank Richard (1895 - 1967)

Born
14 April 1895
Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
Died
2 October 1967
Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Chemist and Museum Director

Summary

Frank Morrison joined the Technological Museum, Sydney in 1916 and was the Museum's Economic Chemist 1946-1949, Deputy Director 1949-1956 and Director 1956-1960. He worked on the chemistry of Australia's natural products, especially eucalyptus oils, in collaboration with A.R. Penfold.

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Born Sydney, 14 April 1895. Died Sydney, 2 October 1967. Educated Sydney Technical College (ASTC (Chem.) 1922). Laboratory assistant, chemical laboratories, Sydney Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board 1912-16, assistant chemist, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences 1916-46, Economic Chemist 1946-49, Deputy Director of the Museum 1949-55, Director 1955-60. President, Sydney Technical College Chemical Society (later University of New South Wales Chemical Society ) 1931, 1955, President, Royal Society of New South Wales 1950. Royal Society of New South Wales medal 1958.

Chronology

1958
Award - Royal Society of New South Wales Medal

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Archival resources

Powerhouse Museum

  • Frank Richard Morrison - Records, 1923 - 1967, PM 122, MRS 225; Powerhouse Museum. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Penfold, A. R.; and Morrison, F. R., Guide to the extraction of Eucalyptus oil in the field (Sydney, NSW: Thomas Henry Tennant, Government Printer, 1945), 15 pp. Details
  • Penfold, Arthur de Ramon.; Morrison, Frank Richard, Commercial Eucalyptus oils (Sydney: Department of Technical EducationMuseum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Department. Of Technical Education, 1951), 35 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Holland, H. G.; Mckern, H.H.G., 'Morrison, Frank Richard (1895-1967), Chemist and Museum Director' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 417-418. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150487b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • 'Obituary. Frank Richard Morrison', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, 35 (2) (1968), 36. Details
  • 'Obituaries: Frank Richard Morrison; Herbert Minchin Nicholls', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, 35 (2) (1968), 36. Details
  • 'Obituaries. Frank Richard Morrison', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 102 (1969), 96-97. Details

Resources

See also

  • Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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