MORRISON, FRANK RICHARD (1895-1967), chemist and museum director, was born on 14 April 1895 at Randwick, Sydney, third child of native-born parents Alexander John Thomas Morrison, tinsmith and later chemist, and his wife Blanche Agnes, née Moss. Frank was educated at Sydney Technical High School and (part time) at Sydney Technical College where he gained a diploma in chemistry (1922). Employed as an assistant in the chemical laboratory of the Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage from 20 July 1912, he transferred to a similar post in the Technological Museum in April 1916. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 2 July 1918 and arrived in Britain after the Armistice. In 1919 he served at the Australian Staging Camp in France.

Discharged in Sydney on 28 October that year, Morrison returned to the museum. He assisted the economic chemists—Henry George Smith until 1920 and then Arthur de ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography