Person
Dun, Robert Bruce Macleay (1930 - )
AM FTSE
- Born
- 16 February 1930
- Occupation
- Animal breeder
Summary
Robert Bruce M. Dun, along with Helen Newton Turner and Frederick Harold W. Morley, led a team of CSIRO and State Departments of Agriculture scientists during the 1950s to apply new techniques of animal breeding to the Australian Merino. These techniques depended on first determining what characteristics were required by the end consumers of wool, then investigating how they could best be measured, to what extent they were inherited, to what extent different characteristics were correlated and how they could be combined for selection. Dun was educated at the University of Sydney (BVSc, PhD).
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Chronology
- 1954 - 1965
- Career position - Research Leader at the Trangie Agricultural Research Station
- 1965 - 1967
- Career position - Director of Animal Production Research in the New South Wales Department of Agriculture
- 1968 - 1971
- Career position - Executive Officer of the Australian Meat Research Committee
- 1971 - 1977
- Career position - Assistant Director-General of Animal Production Research, New South Wales Department of Agriculture
- 1975
- Award - Urrbrae Memorial Award
- 1977 - 1983
- Career position - Director-General of Animal Production Research, New South Wales Department of Agriculture
- 1979 - 1987
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
- 1983 - 1985
- Career position - Director of the Australian Development Assistance Bureau
- 1985 - 1993
- Career position - Director-General of the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau
- 1987
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Awarded by AATS 1979]
- 1989
- Award - Gilruth Prize for Meritorious Service to Veterinary Science, Australian Veterinary Association
- 1993
- Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - For service to international relations and to the advancement of developing countries as Director-General, Australian International Development Assistance Bureau.
- 2001
- Award - Centenary Medal - In recognition of service to international relations and to the advancement of developing countries as Director-General, Australian International Development Assistance Bureau.
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Published resources
Resources
- 'Dun, R B (19300216-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-465745. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_d.html. Details
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Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 11 May 2022
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