Person

Ward, Hugh Kingsley (1887 - 1972)

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Born
17 September 1887
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died
22 November 1972
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Bacteriologist

Summary

Hugh Ward was the Bosch Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Sydney from 1935 to 1952, then medical officer with the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service. Previously he worked in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Ward received the Military Cross with 2 Bars for his outstanding work and braveness in treating wounded service men during World War I.

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Chronology

c. 1910
Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), University of Sydney
1910 - 1911
Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Sydney Hospital
1911 - 1914
Career position - (New South Wales) Rhodes Scholar, New College, Oxford, UK
1914 - 1917
Military service - War service in the Royal Army Medical Corps Special Reserve
1923 - 1924
Career position - Rockefeller Fellow, Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Harvard University, USA
1924 - 1926
Career position - Bacteriologist, University of Oxford
1926 - 1934
Career position - Assistant Professor of Bacteriology, Harvard University
1935 - 1952
Career position - Bosch Professor of Bacteriology, University of Sydney
1936 -
Career position - Founding member, National Health and Medical Research Council
1948 - 1953
Career position - Council member, Australian National University
1952
Life event - Retired from the University of Sydney
1952 - 1953
Career position - Chairman, Australian National Research Council
1952 - 1966
Career position - Medical Officer, Red Cross Blood Transfusion Office in Sydney

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Book Sections

  • Fenner, Frank; De Burgh, P.M., 'Ward, Hugh Kingsley (1887-1972), Bacteriologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 488-489. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160580b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • W., H. K., 'Dr N. E. Goldsworthy', Australian Dental Journal, 5 (6) (1960), 391. Details
  • Ward, H. K., 'Obituary: Dr. N. E. Goldsworthy', Australian Journal of Science, 23 (7) (1961), 214-215. Details
  • Ward, Hugh, 'Neil Ernest Goldsworthy, 17th February 1897 - 26th September 1960', Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, 83 (1962), 597-602. Details

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See also

  • Courtice, F. C ., 'Robert John Walsh', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (2) (1985), 277-291. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9850620277. Details
  • Fenner, Frank ed., History of Microbiology in Australia (Melbourne: Australian Society for Microbiology, 1990), 624 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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