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Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry (1916 - )

OBE, FRSC, FRACI, FIFST, FAIFST, Hon FNZIFST, FTSE

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Chemist, Food Scientist and Science historian

Born: 28 March 1916

Keith Thomas H. Farrer was a long time member of the Commonwealth Committee on Food Additives and a co-founder of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He was also Chief Scientist at Kraft Foods Ltd in Melbourne (1976-81), where he began working in 1938 as a graduate research chemist. Farrer’s first job was to develop methods for measuring vitamin B1 levels in food and for conserving B1 levels during the heat processing. This work was instrumental in the development of Kraft’s Vegemite.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1937 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1938 Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne
1947 - Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry (FRIC), now the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
1947 - Fellow of the Australian Chemical Institute (F(R)ACI)
1950 - 1974 Manager of Research and Development at Kraft Foods Ltd. in Melbourne
1954 Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne
1954 - 1986 Member of the Commonwealth Committee on Food Additives
1957 President of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Victorian branch
1959 Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology Award received
1964 Foundation member of the Australian Industrial Research Group
1967 - Foundation Fellow of the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology (FAIFST)
1967 Fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology, UK (FIFST)
1969 - 1971 President of the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology
1970 - 1974 Deputy President of Victoria Institute of Colleges
1970 - 1979 Council Member of Victoria Institute of Colleges
1974 - 1976 Manager of Science and Technology at Kraft Foods Ltd.
1974 - 1977 President of the of the Australian Industrial Research Group
1976 - 1981 Chief Scientist at Kraft Foods Ltd.
1976 - 1982 Member of the Victorian Consumer Affairs Council
1977 Master of Arts (MA) completed at La Trobe University, Bundoora
1979 Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
1979 - 1983 Member of the Antarctic Research Policy Advisory Committee
1979 - 1987 Member of the Monash University Council
1981 - 1982 Honorary Senior Associate at Deakin University, Victoria
1981 - 1987 Farrer Consultants established
1983 Leighton Memorial Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
1988 - 2000 Australian representative on the Executive Council of CAB International in Wallingford, UK
2001 - Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology

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'Dr Keith Thomas Henry Farrer OBE MA DSc FTSE - Biographical Note', Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, http://www.atse.org.au/index.php?sectionid=648. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 29 November 2006

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