Year: 1985
Denomination: Fifty Dollars (Paper)
Signatories: R. A.Johnston,Governor, Reserve Bank of Australia
B.W.Fraser, Secretary to the Treasury
Serial Number: YUL 651028 (OCRB)
Renniks No.: R509b
Approx Grade: EF
Note Description:
Two light corner folds and light wrinkling. Paper is clean and crisp. Nice example. Getting very hard to find in this condition.
Design Details:
Obverse:
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey OM, FRS (24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the extraction of penicillin.
Reverse:
Sir (William) Ian Clunies Ross, CMG (1899–1959) is described as the 'architect' of Australia's scientific boom, for his stewardship of Australia's scientific organisation the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - CSIRO. In 1943, Clunies Ross was appointed Director of Scientific Personnel in the Commonwealth Directorate of Manpower and also Adviser on the Pastoral Industry to the Department of War Organization of Industry. He held these positions until 1945 while continuing work connected with his university position. At the end of the war he left the university to assist the CSIR in planning sheep and wool-textile research. In 1946 he was appointed a full-time member of the CSIR Executive Committee, which was situated in Melbourne. He served as the executive officer of the CSIR until 1949 when it was renamed the CSIRO. He was chairman of the CSIRO until his death in 1959. During this time he oversaw the release of myxomatosis for rabbit control in Australia.
Watermark: Captain Cook in left panel
All biographical details are taken from Wikipedia for education purposes only.
