Person

Stoate, Theodore Norman (1895 - 1979)

Born
13 January 1895
Stepney, South Australia, Australia
Died
13 April 1979
Busselton, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
Forester

Summary

Theodore Norman Stoate and Stephen L. Kessell (qv) of the Western Australian Forests Department studied the nutrition requirements of pine in the 1920s and showed that poor sites benefited from the addition of phosphorus and zinc.

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Graduate of the Adelaide Forestry School 1918; post-graduate Diploma of Forestry, Oxford 1931. New South Wales Forestry Commission; Assistant Working Plans Officer, Western Australian Forests Department 1922-27, Assistant Conservator 1927-46, Conservator from 1946. First winner of W.R. Grimwade scholarship to University of Oxford 1930.

Chronology

1936
Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus stoatei C.A.Gardner was named in Stoate's honour

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Book Sections

  • Mills, Jenny, 'Stoate, Theodore Norman (1895-1979), Forester' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 313-314. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160382b.htm. Details

Resources

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_s.html. Details
  • Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
  • Stephens, C.G.; and Quirk, J.P., 'James Arthur Prescott 1890-1987', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (3) (1988), 299-313. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9880730299. Details

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