Person
Murray, Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald (1900 - 1967)
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Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald Murray
Details
- Born
- 18 June 1900
Dorchester, Dorset, England - Died
- 17 May 1967
at sea - Occupation
- Zoologist
Summary
Patrick Murray was appointed Challis professor of zoology at the University of Sydney in 1949 and resigned in 1960. He then took up a readership in zoology (later, research fellow) at the University of New England where he specialized in experimental embryology. Prior to these two posts Murray worked overseas at many prestigious institutes including the Strangeways Research Laboratory at the University of Cambridge (UK); the University of Freiburg (Germany); Bedford College for Women, University of London; and at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School.
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Chronology
- 1914
- Education - Entered St Ignatius' College in Riverview, New South Wales
- 1919? - 1966
- Career position - Member, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
- 1922
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Sydney
- 1922
- Education - Matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, UK
- 1924
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Oxford
- 1924 - 1926
- Award - Linnean Macleay Fellow (Zoology), for study at the University of Sydney
- 1924 - 1929
- Career position - Lecturer and Demonstrator in Zoology, University of Sydney
- 1924 - 1967
- Award - Fellow, Linnean Society of New South Wales
- 1926
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Sydney
- 1926 - 1929
- Career position - Lecturer in Zoology, University of Sydney
- 1929 - c. 1930
- Career position - Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, Universities of Cambridge (UK) and Freiburg (Germany)
- 1931 - 1935
- Career position - Smithson Fellow of Natural Sciences, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge
- 1936
- Career event - Bones: a study of the development and structure of the vertebrate skeleton published
- 1938 - 1939
- Career position - Demonstrator in Zoology, Bedford College for Women, University of London
- 1939 - 1949
- Career position - Reader in Biology and Comparative Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, UK
- 1949 - 1960
- Career position - Challis Professor of Zoology, University of Sydney
- 1950 - 1960
- Career position - Trustee, Australian Museum
- 1954
- Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1954 - 1967
- Award - Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1957
- Career position - President, Section D, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1960 - 1966
- Career position - Reader, Department of Zoology, University of New England
- 1966 - 1967
- Career position - Research Fellow, University of New England
- 1966 - 1967
- Award - Life Member, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Murray, P. D. F., Bones: a study of development and structure of the vertebrate skeleton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936), 203 pp. Details
- Murray, P. D. F., Biology: an introduction to medical and other studies (London: Macmillan, 1950), 600 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Wimborne, Brian, 'Murray, Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald (1900-1967), Zoologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 454-455. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150527b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Dr. P.D.F. Murray: obituary', Australian Zoologist, 14 (2) (1967), 227. Details
- Murray, P. D. F.; and Crocker, R. L., 'Obituary: John McLuckie', Australian Journal of Science, 19 (3) (1956), 109-110. Details
- Rogers, W. P., 'Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald Murray', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 1 (3) (1968), 71-76. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9680130071.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536989. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/14846784. Details
- 'Murray, P D F (1900-1967)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-998446. Details
Resource Sections
- Rogers, W. P., 'Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald Murray 1900-1967', in Australian Academy of Science Biographical Memoirs, Australian Academy of Science, 2006, https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/biographical-memoirs/patrick-desmond-fitzgerald-murray-1900-1967. Details
See also
- Norris, K. R., 'Ian Murray Mackerras 1898-1980', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (2) (1981), 98-114. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9810520098. Details
- Prince, J. H., The first one hundred years of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 1879 - 1979 (Sydney: Royal Zoolgical Society of New South Wales, 1979), 81 pp. Details
Digital resources
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
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