Person

Hoffmann, Erich (1908 - 1981)

Born
1908
Died
20 October 1981
Occupation
Analytical chemist

Summary

Erich Hoffmann headed the Paint Group of CSIRO's (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Building Research from his arrival in Melbourne in 1957 until his retirement in 1972. He was the first to chemically investigate the fungicides in the paint film and developed many paint formulations for use in moist interior and exterior locations varying from Housing Commission kitchens to claddings for housing in Papua New Guinea. Prior to joining CSIRO he worked as a Research Chemist for Timbrol Ltd.

Skip to

Published resources

Resources

Rosanne Walker

Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 26 March 2007

EOAS ID: biogs/P002931b.htm

This Edition: 2026 February - 1926 Centenaries
Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar - Late summer: late January to late March - season of eels
Reference: https://www.bom.gov.au/resources/indigenous-weather-knowledge/indigenous-seasonal-calendars/gariwerd-calendar#bom-anchor-list__item-kooyang-season-of-eels

Publisher: Swinburne University of Technology.

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002931b.htm

For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260