Norman Taylor (scientist)

Norman Hargrave Taylor OBE (9 June 1900 – 25 October 1975) was a New Zealand teacher, soil scientist and scientific administrator. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1900. He was the director of the Soil Bureau[1] and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1960 Queen's Birthday Honours.[2][3]

Taylor in 1955

References
  1. Atkinson, J. D. (1976). DSIR's First Fifty Years.
  2. Neall, V. E. "Norman Hargrave Taylor". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  3. "No. 42053". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 11 June 1960. p. 4016.


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