Person
Bayliss, Noel Stanley (1906 - 1996)
CBE FAA
- Born
- 19 December 1906
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Died
- 17 February 1996
Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Chemist
Summary
Sir Noel Bayliss was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Western Australia 1938-1971. His main interest was spectroscopy but he was also involved during the 1940s with investigation of the chemistry of alunite clay as a potential source of potash and alumina.
Details
Chronology
- 1927
- Award - Rhodes Scholar for Victoria
- 1927
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
- 1930
- Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Oxford
- 1930 - 1933
- Award - Commonwealth Fund Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
- 1933
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
- 1933 - 1937
- Career position - Senior Lecturer in chemistry, University of Melbourne
- 1938 - 1971
- Career position - Professor of Chemistry, University of Western Australia
- 1942 - 1953
- Award - Fellow, Australian Chemical Institute
- 1946
- Career position - President, Western Australian Branch, Australian Chemical Institute
- 1950
- Career position - President, Chemistry Section, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1950
- Award - H. G. Smith Memorial Medal, Australian Chemical Institute
- 1953 - 1996
- Award - Fellow, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- 1954 - 1996
- Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1955 - 1956
- Career event - President, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- 1956 - 1961
- Career position - Chairman, Western Australian State Committee and Member, CSIRO Advisory Council
- 1959 - 1970
- Career position - Member, Australian Universities Commission
- 1960
- Award - Companion of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 1962
- Career position - President, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1965 - 1968
- Career position - Member of Council, Australian Academy of Science
- 1967
- Award - Leighton Memorial Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- 1967 - 1968
- Career position - Vice-President, Australian Academy of Science
- 1968
- Award - DSc honoris causa, University of Western Australia
- 1970 - 1973
- Career position - Chairman, Murdoch University Planning Board
- 1972 -
- Career position - Emeritus Professor, University of Western Australia
- 1972
- Career event - Liversidge lecture delivered to Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1972 - 1983
- Career position - Director, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and Chairman, Western Australian Registry Committee
- 1973 - 1982
- Career position - Member of the Senate, Murdoch University
- 1975
- Career position - Member, Committee on Post-Secondary Education, Western Australia
- 1975
- Award - Doctor of the University, Murdoch University
- 1979
- Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt)
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Noel Stanley Bayliss - Records, 1940 - 1984, MS 185; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Private hands (Bayliss, N.S.)
- Noel Stanley Bayliss - Records, 1907 - 1990; Private hands (Bayliss, N.S.). 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
- Bayliss, N. S., 'Obituary: Douglas Elwood White', Australian Journal of Science, 26 (12) (1964), 393. Details
- Bayliss, N. S., 'The Western Australian Alunite Project 1940-1954', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (4) (1983), 39-54. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9830540039. Details
- Cole, A. R. H., 'Noel Stanley Bayliss 1906-1996', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (2) (1996), 191-211. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9961120191. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7046844. Details
- 'Bayliss, Noel Stanley (1906-1996)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476137. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Bayliss, Noel Stanley - Ms 185', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms185.html. Details
- 'Bayliss, Noel Stanley', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000213p.htm. Details
See also
- Cole, A. R. H.; Watts, D. W., 'Alan James Parker 1933-1982', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (3) (1986), 399-407. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9860630399. Details
- Walsh, A.; and Willis, J. B., 'Albert Lloyd George Rees 1916-1989', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (1) (1992), 31-47. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920910031. Details
Digital resources
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 June 2022
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