MacCallum, Peter (1885 - 1974)

Summary

Sir Peter MacCallum was Professor of Pathology, University of Melbourne 1925-1950 and helped to design the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the Cancer Institute and was involved with the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria.

Details

Chronology

1907

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), Canterbury College, Christchurch, New Zealand

1908

Education - Master of Science (MSc), Canterbury College, Christchurch, New Zealand

1909

Education - Master of Arts (MA), Canterbury College, Christchurch, New Zealand

1914

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), University of Edinburgh

1914

Education - Bachelor of Surgery (ChB), University of Edinburgh

1915 - 1918

Military service - First World War. Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps

1925 - 1950

Career position - Professor of Pathology, University of Melbourne

1930

Career event - Elected Member (Pathology), Australian National Research Council

1931 - 1950

Career position - Member of Council, University of Melbourne

1934

Career event - Member, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

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

1939 - 1943

Career position - Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne

1944 - 1946

Career position - Chairman of the professorial board, University of Melbourne

1947 - 1950

Career position - Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne

1948 - 1951

Career position - Chairman, Australian National Research Council

1950

Award - Doctor of Medicine (MD), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

1950

Life event - Retired

1953

Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt) - Dean of Medicine at the University of Melbourne

1953

Career event - Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

1953 - 1961

Career position - Member of Council, University of Melbourne

Related entries

Archival resources

Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria

• Peter MacCallum - Records, 1935 - 1942; Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Peter MacCallum - Records, 1938 - 1961; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Wellcome Collection

• Victoria Eugenics Society, 1940 - 1961, SA/EUG/E.4; Eugenics Society [SA/EUG]; Wellcome Collection. Details
• Victoria Eugenics Society, 1914 - 1939, SA/EUG/E.3; Eugenics Society [SA/EUG]; Wellcome Collection. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Guest, J.S., 'MacCallum, Sir Peter (1885-1974), Professor of Pathology' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 165-167. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150201b.htm. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7175570. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93121784. Details
• 'MacCallum, Peter (1885-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-556372. Details
• 'Awarded honorary MD, 1950', 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

• 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