Person

Waring, Horace (Harry) (1910 - 1980)

FAA

Born
17 December 1910
Liverpool, England
Died
9 August 1980
Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
Zoologist
Alternative Names
  • Waring, Harry

Summary

Harry Waring was Professor of Zoology, University of Western Australia 1948-1975.

Skip to

Details

Chronology

1931
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Liverpool, UK
1933
Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Liverpool
1939
Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Aberdeen, Scotland
1946 - 1948
Career position - Head of the Zoology Department, University of Birmingham, UK
1948 - 1975
Career position - Professor of Zoology, University of Western Australia
1954 - 1980
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1958
Career position - Acting Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Australia
1958 - 1959
Career position - Chairman, Professorial Board, University of Western Australia
1962
Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
1970
Award - Doctorate of Science (DSc), honoris causa, University of Western Australia
1970
Award - Britannica Australia Award for Science, shared with A. R. Main,
1975
Life event - Retired
1980
Award - Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

Related Corporate Bodies

Archival resources

University of Western Australia, University Archives

  • Horace (Harry) Waring - Records, 1919 - 1980; University of Western Australia, University Archives. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

Journal Articles

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

Digital resources

Title
Horace Waring
Type
Image

Details

McCarthy, G.J.

Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 25 November 2022

EOAS ID: biogs/P000864b.htm

This Edition: 2026 February - 1926 Centenaries
Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar - Late summer: late January to late March - season of eels
Reference: https://www.bom.gov.au/resources/indigenous-weather-knowledge/indigenous-seasonal-calendars/gariwerd-calendar#bom-anchor-list__item-kooyang-season-of-eels

Publisher: Swinburne University of Technology.

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000864b.htm

For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260