Person

Morley, Frederick Harold William (1918 - 2001)

FTSE

Born
14 July 1918
Mount Irvine, New South Wales, Australia
Died
14 March 2001
Occupation
Veterinary scientist

Summary

Frederick Harold W. Morley, who was educated Universities of Sydney (BVSc 1942), Iowa (PhD) and Melbourne (DScAg), worked as Chief Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Plant Industry from 1956 to 1977. He was also a Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Animal Production at the University of Melbourne. Morely was a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE); the Australian Association of Animal Breeding and Genetics; the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists; the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science; and of the Australian Society for Animal Production.

Together with Helen Newton Turner and Robert Bruce Macleay Dun, Frederick Morely led a team of CSIRO and State Agriculture Department 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.

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Chronology

1942
Education - Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc), University of Sydney
c. 1945
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa, USA
1956 - 1977
Career position - Chief Research Scientist at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Plant Industry
1970
Award - Australian Medal of Agricultural Science, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science
1970 - 1972
Career position - President, Australian Society of Animal Production
1979 - 1987
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
1981 - 1996
Award - Fellow, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science
1987 - 2001
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Awarded by AATS 1979]
1996
Award - Gilruth Prize for Meritorious Service to Veterinary Science, Australian Veterinary Association
1997 - 2001
Award - Fellow, Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology

Published resources

Newspaper Articles

  • Jellie, David, Vizard, Andrew and Donnelly, John, 'Obituary: Dr Fred Morley', The Age (2001). Details

Resources

See also

Rosanne Walker

Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 28 June 2006

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