9-622: Torchy can refer to: People [ edit ] Nickname [ edit ] Torchy Atkinson (1909-1990), New Zealand horticultural scientist and scientific administrator Torchy Clark , American basketball head coach for the University of Central Florida (1969-1983) Roy Hasson (1921-1968), Australian rugby league footballer of the 1940s Judith Krantz (born 1928), American romance novelist William Peden (1906-1980), Canadian Hall-of-Fame cyclist Surname [ edit ] Paul Torchy ,
18-469: A competitor in the inaugural 1923 24 Hours of Le Mans , the 1925 French Grand Prix and the 1925 Belgian Grand Prix Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Torchy Blane , a female reporter character in late 1930s films the title character of Jackie Ormes ' 1938-1939 comic strip Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem Torchy Todd, heroine of Torchy (comics) , a comic strip and comic book begun in 1944
27-478: The Empire Marketing Board . The initial plans also included a new agricultural college, to be jointly founded by Auckland and Victoria University Colleges , Palmerston North was chosen as the site for this and it grew to become Massey University . DSIR initially had five divisions: The later Antarctic Division became Antarctica New Zealand in 1996. The Grasslands Division originally included
36-543: The title Torchy . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Torchy&oldid=1158331369 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Nicknames Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Torchy Atkinson John Dunstan " Torchy " Atkinson OBE (3 March 1909 – 27 February 1990)
45-545: The title character of Torchy the Battery Boy , a 1958-1959 puppet television series Torchy, a fire-breathing Dimetrodon from the third season of Land of the Lost Torchy, a character played by Johnny Hines in a series of film shorts (1920-1922) Torchy (album) , a 1955 album by jazz singer Carmen McRae Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
54-532: Was a New Zealand horticultural scientist and scientific administrator. Atkinson was born in Wellington , New Zealand on 3 March 1909. His father was the solicitor Arnold Atkinson (1874–1917), and his mother was Mary Herrick Atkinson (née Hursthouse). He was known as Duncan by his family, but friends and colleagues almost all referred to him as Torchy for his red hair, and the name stuck even after he had turned grey. New Zealand's tenth Premier , Sir Harry Atkinson ,
63-682: Was a government science agency in New Zealand , founded in 1926 and broken into Crown Research Institutes in 1992. DSIR was founded in 1926 by Ernest Marsden after calls from Ernest Rutherford for government to support education and research and on the back of the Imperial Economic Conference in London in October and November 1923, when various colonies discussed setting up such departments. It initially received funding from sources such as
72-651: Was commissioned to write the history of the DSIR. In the 1975 New Year Honours , Atkinson was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire , for services to scientific research. Atkinson died at Birkdale , Auckland, on 27 February 1990. This article about a New Zealand scientist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand) The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research ( DSIR )
81-590: Was his grandfather. Atkinson wrote his master's thesis at Massey University in 1932 with the title Studies on the dieback of lacebarks, Myxosporium hoheria. n.f.sp . He was the director of Fruit Research Station of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), and later the director of the Plant Diseases Division. His research has contributed significantly to New Zealand's strong position as an exporter of fruit. After his retirement in 1974, he
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