Person

Tiegs, Oscar Werner (1897 - 1956)

FAA FRS

Born
12 March 1897
Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Australia
Died
5 November 1956
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
University Administrator and Zoologist

Summary

Oscar Tiegs was Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne 1948-1956. He had earlier been an Associate Professor and Lecturer at Melbourne. Tiegs was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1944 and was a Founding Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) in 1954. His areas of research ranged from the study of helminths and arthropod musculature to invertebrate embryology. In the phylogenetics of arthropods his major contribution was to divide the phylum into two parts: insects, myriapods and velvet worms; and trilobites, crustaceae and arachnids. Tiegs considerably improved the University of Melbourne's zoological museum, now known as the Tiegs Museum. His childhood collection of c.1,000 beetles ultimately went to Queensland Museum.

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Chronology

1919
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc(Hons)), University of Queensland
1920 - 1921
Award - Walter and Eliza Hall Fellowship in Economic Botany
1921
Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Queensland
1922
Career event - Elected Associate Member (Zoology), Australian National Research Council
1922
Career position - Acting Chair, Department of Zoology, University of Adelaide
1925 - 1931
Career position - Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne
1928
Award - David Syme Research Prize, University of Melbourne
1928
Award - Rockefeller Travelling Fellowship
1931 - 1948
Career position - Associate Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne
1933
Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
1944
Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
1948 - 1956
Career position - Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne
1949
Career position - President, Section D Zoology, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
1950 - 1952
Career position - Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne
1951
Career position - Head of Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne
1953 - 1956
Award - Petitioner for the Academy, Founding Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1956
Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • Oscar Werner Tiegs - Records, 1918 - 1959, MS 076; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Book Sections

  • Rasmussen, Carolyn, 'Tiegs, Oscar Werner (1897-1956), Professor of Zoology' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 393-394. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160475b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Coultas, Anna, 'Cabinets of Curiosities, Mystery Specimens and a Giant Bird: a History of the Tiegs Museum, 1887-1959', University of Melbourne Collections, 7 (2010), 35-42. Details
  • Drummond, F. H., 'Obituary: Oscar Werner Tiegs', Australian Journal of Science, 19 (4) (1957), 151-152. Details
  • Pantin, C. F. A., 'Oscar Werner Tiegs 1897 - 1956', Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 3 (1957), 247-55. https://doi,org/10.1098/rsbm.1957.0017. Details
  • Tiegs, O. W., 'Obituary: Wilfred Eade Agar', Australian Journal of Science, 14 (2) (1951), 49. Details

Resources

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See also

Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn

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