Wright, Roy Douglas (Pansy) (1907 - 1990)

Summary

Roy Wright was Professor of Physiology, University of Melbourne 1939-1971 and played a leading role in the direction taken by medical research during that period in Australia. He was Chancellor of the University of Melbourne 1980-1989.

Details

Chronology

1937

Award - David Syme Research Prize (jointly), University of Melbourne

1937 - 1939

Career position - Worked with Howard Florey in England

1939 - 1971

Career position - Professor of Physiology, University of Melbourne

1971 - 1975

Career position - Medical Director, Peter MacCallum Institute, Melbourne

1972 - 1980

Career position - Deputy Chancellor, University of Melbourne

1980

Award - Doctor of Laws (LLD), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

1980 - 1989

Career position - Chancellor, University of Melbourne

1983

Award - Knight of the Order of Australia (AK) - for service to education learning and medicine

Related entries

Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

• (Roy) Douglas Wright - Records, 1933 - 1975; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• McPhee, Peter, The Politics of Knowledge: Towards a Biography of R. D. ('Pansy') Wright (Melbourne: History of the University Project, University of Melbourne, 1995), 20 pp. Details
• McPhee, Peter, Pansy: a life of Roy Douglas Wright (Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 1999), 265 pp. Details

Book Sections

• McPhee, Peter, 'Wright, Sir Roy Douglas (1907-1990), Professor of Physiology and University Administrator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 18: 1981 - 1990 L-Z, Melanie Nolan, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2012), pp. 639-40. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wright-sir-roy-douglas-pansy-1068. Details

Journal Articles

• Anon, 'Roy Douglas Wright', Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Science, 50 (7) (1972), 791-4. Details
• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Roy Douglas Wright', Uni News, 12 (6) (2003), 4. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7373531. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/20920735. Details
• 'Wright, Douglas (1907-1990)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1474289. Details
• 'Awarded honorary LLD, 1980', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Cancer Institute Board, Peter MacCallum Cancer Clinic [1968.0003.00116]; Series UMA-SR-000000125', in Collection discovery service, University of Melbourne Archives (Recollect), University of Melbourne Archives, Melbourne, Victoria, 2024. https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/71508. Details

See also

• Dahlitz, Ray, Secular who's who : a biographical directory of freethinkers, secularists, rationalists, humanists and others involved in Australia's secular movement from 1850 onwards (Balwyn, Victoria: R. Dahlitz, 1994), 192 pp. p.173. Details
• Danks, D.; Duffield, A.; Sargeson, A., 'Berthold Halpern 1923-1980', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (4) (1983), 72-81. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9830540072. Details
• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details
• Glover, W. E., 'Robert Ford Whelan 1922-1984', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (3) (1986), 409-421. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9860630409. Details
• Redgrave, T. G., 'Wilfred John Simmonds 1918-1990', Historical Records of Australian Science, 8 (4) (1991), 265-275. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9910840265. Details