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MS 187 – WHIFFEN, Neville Albert (1912-2004)

CHEMICAL ENGINEER

Whiffen has had a wide and varied career in both the public and private sectors. He had various positions with CSIR/O including the post of Scientific Attache of the Australian Embassy, Washington. In 1988 he was Chairman of Peptide Technology Limited.

Summary of highlights of 60 year career in science and technology. May 1993

Award of Fellowship of Sydney Technical College, 21 June 1939. Program

Inaugural 40 year reunion of graduates of the University of New South Wales, 14 August 1992

Australian Scientific Research Liaison Office, Washington DC, and Fulbright Scholarships. 1943-48, 1990

Contact records Washington DC January 1944 - August 1945

"Diary extracts. Australia". Significant correspondence and newspaper clippings 1950-65

Chemical engineering 1962-78

"Fifty years of chemical engineering in Australia", by NAW and J R Norman. 1965

Conference highlights from PACFE [Pacific and Far East] marketing conference 1970s

Tasmanian Alkaloids Pty Ltd Poppy growers' bulletin no 2, nos 4-8, 1976-78

Canberra Development Board 1979-84

National Science Summer School 1983-84, 1993

Peptide Technology Limited 1985-88

1st NSW Food Science and Nutrition Summer School, 13-19 January 1991

Brief biography of Robert Kenneth Murphy, written by NAW September 1995

Award of [US] Medal of Freedom to NAW, 25 April 1996

“Don’t wait to be asked” – typescript of unpublished autobiography, ca 1999

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