Dr Ivan Jarrett joined CSIR in1948 and retired in March 1980 after 41 years, all of which were spent in the Animal Nutrition Laboratories in Adelaide and at the Division of Human Nutrition which succeeded the earlier Division in 1975.

 

Dr Jarrett graduated at the University of Adelaide with a B.Sc in 1939 and subsequently obtained a Doctor of Science in 1964.

 

He achieved Senior Principal Research Scientist status before the Division of Nutrition Biochemistry was replaced by the Division of Human Nutrition and subsequently was promoted to Assistant Chief of the new Division as Chief Research Scientist.

 

Throughout his long scientific career, Dr Jarrett was concerned with the study of metabolism and nutrition, first in the ruminant and later in the human.

 

During his career he contributed extensively to a number of scientific societies, particularly the Physiological Society of the UK, the Australian Biochemical Society, the Nutrition Society of Australia and the Endocrine Society of Australia. He was President of the latter from 1970 to 1972.

 

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