Person

Vickery, James Richard (1902 - 1997)

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Born
9 July 1902
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Died
13 June 1997
Occupation
Food scientist

Summary

James Vickery was Chief of the CSIR/O Division of Food Preservation 1940-1967. He had originally joined the CSIR Section of Food Preservation and Transport in 1931 as Officer-in-Charge. In 1929 he was sent as biologist on a scientific survey party sent from England at the request of the New Zealand Government to examine and report on certain aspects of the export lamb trade.

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Chronology

1925
Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
1926 - 1929
Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship [Biochemistry. - Effects of changes of environment on the properties of mammalian muscle. University of Cambridge]
1929 - 1930
Career position - Biologist to Food and Transport Survey under Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and Empire Marketing Board
1930 - 1931
Career position - Physiologist, Foodstuffs Section, CSIR, Australia
1931 - 1940
Career position - Officer-in-charge, Food Preservation and Transport Section, CSIR
1934 - 1938
Career position - Member of Council, Royal Society of Queensland
1941 - 1967
Career position - Chief of Division of Food Preservation, CSIR/O
1966
Award - Institute of Food Technologists Australia Award for meritous contributions to the Australian food industry
10 Jun 1967
Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) - Director of the CSIRO
1975 - 1987
Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
1987 - 1997
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Foundation Fellow AATS 1975]
1990
Publication - Book: "Food Science and Technology in Australia: a review of research since 1900"

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Archival resources

Private hands (Vickery, J.R.)

  • James Richard Vickery - Records; Private hands (Vickery, J.R.). Details

Published resources

Books

  • CSIRO, CSIRO research for Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Canberra: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation, 1962), 64 pp, https://www.eoas.info/bib-pdf/ASBS15940.pdf. Details
  • Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Record of the science research scholars of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, 1891 - 1960 (London: The Commissioners, 1961), 107 pp. Overseas Scholarship - Entry No.32. Details
  • Vickery, J. R., Food Science and Technology in Australia: a review of research since 1900 (North Ryde, New South Wales: CSIRO, 1990), 162 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • 'Dr. James Richard Vickery: Food research chief retires', Australian Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating, 21 (7) (1967), 43-44. Details
  • Vickery, J. R., 'Rapid freezing of foodstuffs', Commonwealth Engineer, 21 (1) (1933), 15. Details
  • Vickery, J. R., 'Retirement of F. E. Huelin: an appreciation by J. R. Vickery. [Includes list of published papers]', CSIRO Food Preservation Quarterly, 30 (1) (1970), 16-18. Details
  • Vickery, J. R., 'Tribute to Dr W. J. Scott [includes list of publications]', CSIRO Food Research Quarterly, 32 (4) (1972), 62-66. Details
  • Vickery, J. R., 'Louis Frederick Bullot - a Pioneer in Meat Technology', Food Technology in Australia, 37 (1985), 458, 461. Details
  • Vickery, J. R., 'William John Young: a Pioneer in Food Science in Australia', Food Technology in Australia, 38 (4) (1986), 158-159. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

Reviews

  • Farrer, K. T. H., A Settlement Amply Supplied: Food Technology in Nineteenth Century Australia
    Vickery, J. R., Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (2), (1981), 127-128. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9810520123. Details

See also

Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes

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