Gibson, Arthur J. (1877 - 1944)

Summary

Arthur Gibson was Assistant Manager and Director of Gibson and Howes Ltd., Bingera Plantation from1918 to 1939, then Managing Director from 1939 until his death. Before this, from 1895 to 1897, he worked at various sugar companies in Germany, Hawaii and Queensland. In 1898 Gibson went back to Germany where he carried out postdoctoral studies. On his return to Queensland in 1902 he was appointed assistant chemist with the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations in Bundaberg. Over the next sixteen years Gibson worked at the Bingera Plantation; was General Superintendent of the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations; and was General Manager of Central Sugar Mills to 1918. From 1933 to 1935 he was General Chairman of the International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists.

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Chronology

1896

Career position - Chemist in Hawaii

1896

Career position - Chemist at the Brunswick Sugar School and Stralsund Beet Sugar Factory in Germany

1897

Career position - Worked in Queensland

1898 - 1901

Career position - Worked and studied in Germany

1900s - 1918

Career position - General Manager of Central Sugar Mills

c. 1901

Education - Doctor of Philosophy and Master of the Liberal Arts, Universities of Zürich (Switzerland) and Göttingen (Germany)

1902

Career position - Assistant Chemist at the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations in Bundaberg, Queensland

1918 - 1939

Career position - Assistant Manager and Director of Gibson and Howes Ltd., Bingera Plantation

1933 - 1935

Career position - General Chairman of the International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists

1939 - 1944

Career position - Managing Director of Gibson and Howes Ltd.

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• 'Gibson, Arthur J. (1877-19440309)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476359. Details