Macbeth, Alexander Killen (1889 - 1957)

Summary

Alexander Macbeth was Professor of Chemistry, University of Adelaide 1928-1954 and Dean of the Faculty of Science. Earlier he was Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, United College University, St Andrews from 1919 and then Reader in Chemistry, University of Durham 1924-1928. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) in 1955. He played a key role in establishing pharmaceutical industry in Australia and worked as a consultant for companies including Beckers Pty Ltd, Johnson Chemical Laboratories, and Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand.

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Chronology

c. 1918

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), Queen's University Belfast

1919 - c. 1924

Career position - Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, St Andrews University, Scotland

1924 - 1928

Career position - Reader in Chemistry, University of Durham

1928

Life event - Moved to Adelaide

1928

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), ad eundem gradum, University of Adelaide

1928 - 1954

Career position - Professor of Chemistry, University of Adelaide

1930

Career event - Elected Member (Chemistry), Australian National Research Council

1930

Career event - Published second edition of book Organic Chemistry for Medical, Intermediate Science and Pharmaceutical Students

1937

Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)

1937

Career position - President, Section B (Chemistry), Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

1946

Award - Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) - for services to industry and The University of Adelaide

1952

Career event - Published third edition of book Organic Chemistry for Medical, Intermediate Science and Pharmaceutical Students

1954 -

Award - Emeritus Professor, University of Adelaide

1955

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Alexander Killen Macbeth - Records, 1945 - 1952, MS 010; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details

Journal Articles

• Macbeth, A. Killen, 'Presidential address: Some aspects of recent research in organic chemistry [Section B - Chemistry]', Report of the twenty-third meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Auckland meeting, January, 1937 (1937), 27-44. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28063737. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/280814354. Details
• 'Macbeth, Alexander Killen (1889-1957)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476132. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Macbeth, Alexander Killen - Ms 10', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms010.html. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_m.html. Details
• Coates, J. H., 'Denis Oswald Jordan 1914-82', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (2) (1985), 237-246. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9850620237. Details