Person
Morgan, Frederick Grantley (1891 - 1969)
- Born
- 4 July 1891
New Glenelg, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 24 December 1969
Kew, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Medical administrator and Medical scientist
Summary
Frederick Morgan was a medical scientist whose research ranged from investigating leprosy in Nauru and filaria in Queensland to vaccines against communicable diseases and the manufacture of insulin in Australia. His work with Charles Kellaway at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute laid the foundations for effective treatment for snake bite in Australia. He was Director of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories for 29 years from 1927, proving to be a successful administrator. During WWII he oversaw the blood processing programs and manufacture of large quantities of penicillin. By 1956 CSL was producing the Salk poliomyelitis vaccine. One of Morgan's main achievements at CSL was to create a separate research unit and creative environment in which researchers could flourish. In retirement he worked for several years in the BCG section of the Victorian Department of Health.
Details
Chronology
- 1916
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Melbourne Hospital
- 1916
- Education - MB BS, University of Melbourne
- 1917
- Career position - Surgical Registrar, Melbourne Hospital
- 1917 - 1919
- Career position - Stewart Lecturer & Scholar in Pathology, University of Melbourne
- 1920
- Career position - Medical Field Officer in charge of Filaria and Intestinal Parasites Survey in Queensland with Rockefeller Foundation
- 1921 - 1925
- Career position - Assistant Bacteriologist, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories
- 1925 - 1927
- Career position - Assistant Director, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories
- 1927 - 1956
- Career position - Director, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories
- 1938 - 1969
- Career position - Foundation Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- 1945 - 1964
- Career position - Trustee, Baker Medical Research Institute
- 1955
- Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 1956
- Life event - Retired
- 1956 - 1969
- Career position - Member, College of Pathologists of Australia
- 1961 - 1965
- Career position - Research scientist, Victorian Department of Health
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Brogan, Alfred H., Committed to Saving Lives: a history of the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (South Yarra, Victoria: Hyland House, 1990), 301 pp. Chief executive 24 Feburary 1927 - 3 July 1956. Details
- McDonald, G. L., Roll of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1988), 332 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Egan, Bryan, 'Morgan, Frederick Grantley (1891-1969), Medical Scientist and Administrator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 405-406. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150474b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24218744. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/36591565. Details
- 'Morgan, Frederick Grantley (1891-1969)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469396. 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_m.html. Details
- Ashton, D. H.; Ducker, S. C., 'John Stewart Turner 1908-1991', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (3) (1993), 278-290. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9930930278. Details
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