Person

Kellaway, Charles Halliley (1889 - 1952)

FRS FRACP MC

Born
16 January 1889
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died
13 December 1952
St Pancras, London, England
Occupation
Medical scientist and Pathologist

Summary

Charles Kellaway was Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research 1923-1944 and Director of Scientific Policy for the Wellcome Foundation, London 1944 -1952.

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Chronology

1914 - 1919
Military service - First World War. Major, Australian Army Medical Corps
1917
Award - Military Cross
1923 - 1944
Career position - Director, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
1926
Career event - Elected Member (Pathology), Australian National Research Council
1932
Award - Walter Burfitt Prize, Royal Society of New South Wales
1937
Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
1938
Career event - Foundation Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
1940
Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
1943
Career event - Published book: The dangerous snakes of the South-West Pacific Areaco-authored with James Roy Kinghorn
1944 - 1952
Career position - Director of Scientific Policy, Wellcome Foundation, London

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Published resources

Books

  • Burnet, Macfarlane, Sir, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1915-1965 (Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 1971), 193 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Asherson, Geoffrey L., 'Charles Halliley Kellaway, 1889-1952' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Details
  • Burnet, Frank Macfarlane, 'Kellaway, Charles Halliley (1889-1952), medical scientist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 546-547. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kellaway-charles-halliley-6910. Details

Journal Articles

  • Dale, H. H., 'Obituary notice: C. H. Kellaway', Obituary Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 8 (1953), 503-21. Details
  • Hobbins, Peter, 'From camels to cats: experimenting with medicine in the Australian Flying Corps', War and Society, 35 (2) (2016), 114-31. Details
  • Hobbins, Peter G., 'Serpentine Science: Charles Kellaway and the Fluctuating Fortunes of Venom Research in Interwar Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, 21 (1) (2010), 1-34, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR09012. Details
  • Hobbins, Peter G., '"Immunisation is as Popular as a Death Adder": the Bundaberg Tragedy and the Political Deployment of Medical Science in Interwar Australia', Social History of Medicine, 24 (2) (2011), 426-44, http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/09/03/shm.hkq047.abstract. Details
  • Hobbins, Peter G.; and Winkel, Kenneth D., 'The Forgotten Successes and Sacrifices of Charles Kellaway, Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1923-1944', Medical Journal of Australia, 187 (11/12) (2007), 645-648. Details
  • Kellaway, C. H., 'The Sir Richard Stawell Oration. (Aspects of medical research in Australian medical Schools).', Medical Journal of Australia (1938), 365-374. Details
  • Kellaway, C. H., 'Twenty-five years of progress in medical research', Medical Journal of Australia, 1939 (1) (1939), 18-22. Details
  • Winkel, Kenneth D.; Mirtschin, Peter and Pearn, John, 'Twentieth Century Toxinology and Antivenom development in Australia', Toxicon, 48 (7) (2006), 738-754 . Details

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See also

  • Fenner, F., 'Frank Macfarlane Burnet, 1899-1985', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (1) (1987), 39-77. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9870710039. Details
  • French, E. L.; and Sutherland, A. K., 'Arthur William Turner 1900-1989', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (1) (1992), 49-63. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920910049. Details
  • Morison, Patricia, The Martin spirit: Charles Martin and the foundation of biological science in Australia (Canberra: Halstead Press, 2019), 296 pp. Details

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