Person

Baragwanath, George Ernest (1903 - 1995)

Born
26 July 1903
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Died
1 June 1995
Occupation
Applied chemist

Summary

George Baragwanath spent his entire working life with the Victorian State Electricity Commission, starting as a Junior Engineering Assistant and finishing as a deputy Division head. His particular area of interest was brown coal.

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Born Ballarat, Victoria, 26 July 1903. Died 1 June 1995. Educated University of Melbourne (BSc 1927). Spent all of his working life at the Victorian State Electricity Commission: Junior Engineering Assistant 1922-34, seconded to the Fuel Research Station, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, London 1934-38, Scientific Adviser to the Agent-General for Victoria 1938, worked on the design and operation of the Richmond gas compressing station during World War II, after the war involved in an overseas mission which led to the Lurgi gasification plant under a new body, the Gas and Fuel Corporation of Victoria, the establishment of the Fuel branch of the Commonwealth Department of National Development and the establishment of fuel utilisation research on brown coal within CSIRO, deputy head of the Scientific Investigations Division in the 1960s, sharing in decisions in the establishment of the Herman Research Laboratory. Between 1981 and 2013 the Australian Institute of Energy presented the Baragwanath Award, which recognised outstanding lifetime contributions by individuals to coal science and research in Australia. Foundation Member of Royal Australian Chemical Institute. A large bequest to the University of Melbourne enabled the setting up of the Baragwanath Scholarship in Geology, within Earth science.

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Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Library

  • Bass Strait oil and gas records assembled by Dr Tony Krins, 1964 - 1987, BSAR03890; Krins, Anthony (Tony); Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Library. Details

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