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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]
The New Zealand Society of Soil Science awards the annual Normal Taylor Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions to Soil Science (also called the Norman Taylor Memorial Lecture) in his honour.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Atkinson, J. D. (1976). DSIR's First Fifty Years.
- ^ Neall, V. E. "Norman Hargrave Taylor". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ^ "No. 42053". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 11 June 1960. p. 4016.
- ^ "Norman Taylor Memorial Lecture". NZ Soil Science. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
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