Person
Derrick, Edward Holbrook (1898 - 1976)
FAA CBE
- Born
- 18 September 1898
Blackwood, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 15 June 1976
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Medical scientist
Summary
Edward Derrick was Director of the Research Bureau, Asthma Foundation of Queensland from 1966 after being Director, Queensland Institute of Medical Research 1961-1966 and Deputy Director from its inception in 1947. He was a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) from 1955 to 1976. In his research Derrick focused on the epidemiology of diseases such as Q fever, dengue fever, scrub typhus, and asthma in children in Brisbane. He investigated principally causative agents, vectors especially viruses and arthropods, and the impact of climatic factors.
Details
Chronology
- ? - 1973
- Career position - Director, Research Bureau, Queensland Asthma Foundation
- 1920
- Education - MB BS, University of Melbourne
- 1922 - 1923
- Career position - Pathology Assistant, Pathological Institute, London Hospital
- 1923
- Education - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, United Kingdom
- 1924
- Life event - Registered with the Queensland Medical Board
- 1924 - 1935
- Career position - In private practice in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland
- 1935 - 1947
- Career position - Director, Laboratory of Microbiology and Pathology, Queensland Department of Health
- 1939
- Award - Cilento Medal (joint), Australian Institute of Anatomy
- 1939 - 1965
- Career position - Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland
- 1940 - 1976
- Award - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1947 - 1961
- Career position - Deputy Director, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
- 1947 - 1976
- Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- 1948
- Award - Bancroft Orator, Queensland Branch, British Medical Association
- 1955 - 1976
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1956
- Award - Foundation Member, College of Pathologists of Australia
- 1961
- Award - Commander of the British Empire (CBE)
- 1961 - 1966
- Career position - Director, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
- 1962
- Award - Elkington Orator, Queensland Society of Health
- 1966 -
- Career position - Honorary Research Fellow, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
- 1966
- Life event - Retired
- 1966
- Award - Doctor of Science (DSc), honoris causa, University of Queensland
- 1966
- Career position - Member, International Society of Biometrology
- 1967 - 1976
- Award - Fellow, Australian Society of Allergists
- 1968 - 1976
- Award - Fellow, Australian Medical Association
- 1969
- Award - ANZAAS Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1970 - 1976
- Award - Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists of Australia
- 1975 - 1976
- Award - Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, United Kingdom
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
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
Book Sections
- Doherty, R. L., 'Derrick, Edward Holbrook (1898-1976), medical practitioner' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), pp. 620-621. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130693b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Obituary: Edwrd Holbrook Derrick', Pathology, 9 (3) (1977), 270-271. Details
- Burnet, F. M., 'Derrick and the story of Q fever', Medical Journal of Australia, 1967 (2) (1967), 1067-8. Details
- Cooke, Robin, 'Q Fever: was Edward Derrick's Contribution Undervalued?', Medical Journal of Australia, 18 (2008), 660-662 . Details
- Derrick, E. H., 'A Mystery Fever Invades Brisbane', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 2 (3) (1972), 39-51. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9720230039.htm. Details
- Derrick, E. H., 'The birth of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research', Medical Journal of Australia, 1972, v.2 (21 October) (1972), 952-9. Details
- Doherty, R. L., 'E. H. Derrick - his published record and its background', Medical Journal of Australia, 1967 (2) (1967), 1069. Details
- Doherty, R. L.; and Tonge, J. I., 'Edward Holbrook Derrick', Medical Journal of Australia, 1976 (2) (1976), 731-2. Details
- Doherty, Ralph L., 'The Bancroft tradition in infectious desease research in Queensland, part 2', Medical Journal of Australia, 2 (1978), 591-4. Details
- Doherty, Ralph L., 'The Bancroft tradition in infectious desease research in Queensland, part 1', Medical Journal of Australia, 1978, v.2 (2 December) (1978), 560-3. Details
- Mackerras, I. M., 'Edward Holbrook Derrick', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 4 (1) (1979), 82-102. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9790410082.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5343482. Details
- 'Derrick, Edward Holbrook (1898-1976)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1470875. Details
- 'Awarded honorary DSc, 1966 [Citation provided]', Honorary awards recipients, University of Queensland, 2023, https://alumni.uq.edu.au/awards/honorary-awards-previous-recipients. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Derrick, Edward Holbrook - Ms 105', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms105.html. Details
- Mackerras, I. M., 'Edward Holbrook Derrick 1898-1976', in Australian Academy of Science Biographical Memoirs, Australian Academy of Science, 2006, https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/biographical-memoirs/edward-holbrook-derrick-1898-1976. Details
See also
- Fenner, Frank ed., History of Microbiology in Australia (Melbourne: Australian Society for Microbiology, 1990), 624 pp. Details
Digital resources
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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