MEDIA RELEASE

ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION

APPOINTMENT OF CHAIRMAN

Statement by the Deputy .Piime Minister and Minister  for National Resources and Overseas Trade, the  R t . Hon. J.D. Anthony, M.P.

'  Professor D.W. George, Vice-Chancellor of the University

of Newcastle, has been appointed Chairman of the Australian

Atomic Energy Commission.

Professor George, who will serve as Chairman on a partÂ­

time basis, succeeds the late Mr R.W. Boswell, O.B.E,

Professor George is a prominent Australian scientist

and administrator. I believe he will be a distinguished

leader of the Commission.

Two new members of the Commission have also been appointed

They are; Â·

o Mr B.J. Callinan, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., Chairman

and Managing Director, Gutteridge, Haskins

and Davey Pty. Ltd.;

Ã¢ÂÂ¢ Mr K.F. Alder, Head, Nuclear Science and TechÂ­

nology Branch, Australian Atomic Energy CommÂ­

ission.

Mr Callinan, a distinguished consulting engineer and

businessman, and Mr Alder, a career officer of the Commission

and one of Australia’s prominent nuclear scientists, will make

valuable contributions to the work of the Commission.

Canberra

27 May 1976

