Article ID: CBB533742987

Ralph Owen Slatyer 1929–2012 (2020)

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Ralph Slatyer (16 April 1929–26 July 2012) had a distinguished career in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the Australian National University, in plant-water relations and plant succession, leading the development of physiological plant ecology. He was the founding Professor of Environmental Biology at the Research School of Biological Sciences, at the Australian National University and then Director of the Research School of Biological Sciences, 1984–9. He was Australian Ambassador to United Nations Educational and Scientific Cultural Organisation (1978–81), and as Australia’s first Chief Scientist (1989–92), he set up the Cooperative Research Centres.

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Authors & Contributors
Orchiston, Wayne
Margaret H. Friedel
Stephen R. Morton
Rogers, George E.
McAlpine, John
Bleeker, Pieter
Concepts
Botany
Plant ecology
Biographies
Environmental management
Land use
Radio astronomy
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Australia
Sydney (Australia)
Southern Europe
Papua New Guinea
Tasmania (Australia)
Eastern Europe
Institutions
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) (Australia)
University of Adelaide (Australia)
Australian National University
Carnegie Institution of Washington
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