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Dun, Robert Bruce Macleay (1930 - )

AM, FTSE

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Animal breeder

Born: 16 February 1930

Robert Bruce M. Dun, along with Helen Newton Turner and Frederick Harold W. Morley, led a team of CSIRO and State Departments of Agriculture 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. Dun was educated at the University of Sydney (BVSc, PhD).

Career Highlights

Chronology
1954 - 1965 Research Leader at the Trangie Agricultural Research Station
1965 - 1967 Director of Animal Production Research in the New South Wales Department of Agriculture
1968 - 1971 Executive Officer of the Australian Meat Research Committee
1971 - 1977 Assistant Director-General of Animal Production Research, New South Wales Department of Agriculture
1975 Urrbrae Memorial Award received
1977 - 1983 Director-General of Animal Production Research
1979 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
1983 - 1985 Director of the Australian Development Assistance Bureau
1985 - 1993 Director-General of the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau
1993 Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

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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/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P003500. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: Rosanne Walker
Created: 25 May 2001
Modified: 21 August 2006

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