Ian Clunies Ross [SEP] date of death
Ian Clunies Ross
Sir William Ian Clunies Ross (22 February 189922 June 1959) was an Australian veterinary scientist. He has been described as the 'architect' of Australia's scientific boom, for his stewardship of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Australian scientific organisation.
Family.
Ian Clunies Ross was born in Bathurst, New South Wales on 22 February 1899. His grandfather, Robert Clunies Ross, was a brother of John Clunies-Ross who settled with his family and crew on
War economic development plan, an Act of the Australian Parliament was passed for their construction (Wool Uses Promotion Act, 1945). The laboratories, built at Prospect Hill near Sydney under Carter's supervision, were opened in 1953 as the “Sheep Biology Laboratory” of the CSIRO (renamed the “Ian Clunies Ross Animal Research Laboratory” in 1959 following the death of Clunies Ross, the Director of CSIRO).
Following completion of the Sheep Biology Laboratory Carter resigned from the CSIRO and took a position at the Animal Breeding