Mellor, D. P. (David Paver), 1903-1980
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Mellor, D. P. (David Power), b. 1903
Mellor, David P., 1903-
Mellor, David Paver, 1903-1980
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found: Chelating agents and metal chelates, 1964:t.p. (D.P. Mellor)
found: OCLC, Jun. 7, 2007(hdg.: Mellor, David Power, Mellor, David P., 1903-; usage: D.P. Mellor)
found: trove.nla.gov.au, April 29, 2020(Chelating agents and metal chelates; edited by F. P. Dwyer, D. P. Mellor; 1964; Dwyer, Francis Patrick; Mellor, D. P. (David Paver), 1903-1980)
found: Australian Dictionary of Biography, viewed online April 29, 2020(Mellor, David Paver (1903-1980); David Paver Mellor, professor of chemistry, was born on 19 March 1903 at Launceston, Tasmania; David was educated at Launceston State High School and the University of Tasmania (B.Sc., 1926; M.Sc., 1928; D.Sc., 1945); after he graduated, he was employed as a chemist at the Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia Ltd, Risdon, and in 1927 was the company's research scholar; in the following year he held a research fellowship at the Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Mount Stromlo, Canberra; he was appointed assistant-lecturer in chemistry at the University of Sydney in 1929; Mellor's research interests were mainly concerned with the properties and structures of metal complex (coordination) compounds; in 1938 he spent a period of study-leave as a research fellow with Professor Linus Pauling at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California; he returned to the University of Sydney with a fresh outlook on inorganic chemistry which was to have a notable effect on two young men, Frank Dwyer and (Sir) Ronald Nyholm; Mellor wrote numerous scientific papers and produced three books: The Role of Science and Industry (Canberra, 1958), The Evolution of the Atomic Theory (New York, 1971), and Chelating Agents and Metal Chelates (New York, 1964) which he edited with Dwyer; he also wrote for the Australian Dictionary of Biography; promoted reader in 1948, Mellor was appointed to the second chair of chemistry at the New South Wales University of Technology (University of New South Wales) in 1955; he was head (1956-1968) of the school of chemistry and dean (1968-1969) of the faculty of science; he died on 9 January 1980 at Royal North Shore Hospital)
found: Encyclopedia of Australian Science, viewed online April 29, 2020(Mellor, David Paver (1903-1980); inorganic chemist; born 19 March 1903 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia; died 9 January 1980 in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; David Mellor was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of New South Wales from 1955 to 1969)
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