Person

McAulay, Alexander (1863 - 1931)

Born
9 December 1863
Luton, Bedfordshire, England
Died
6 July 1931
Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia
Occupation
Mathematician and Physicist

Summary

Alexander McAulay was the first Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Tasmania 1896-1929 after being Lecturer 1893-1895. Earlier he had been a lecturer in mathematics at Ormond College, University of Melbourne after graduating from Cambridge in 1886.

Details

Chronology

1893 - 1895
Career position - Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Tasmania
1895
Career position - President, Section A (Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1896 - 1929
Career position - Professor of Mathematics and Physics, University of Tasmania
1921 -
Career position - Foundation Councillor (Mathematics), Australian National Research Council
1924
Career position - Committee Member, Australian Branch, Institute of Physics

Related Corporate Bodies

Archival resources

Archives Office of Tasmania

  • Alexander McAulay - Records, 1896 - 1931, NS 374; Archives Office of Tasmania. Details

Private hands (McAulay, I.)

  • Alexander McAulay - Records, 1863 - 1931; Private hands (McAulay, I.). Details

University of Tasmania Library, Special/Rare Collection

  • Alexander McAulay - Records, 1887, UT.32; University of Tasmania Library, Special/Rare Collection. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

  • Scott, Bruce, 'McAulay, Alexander (1863-1931), mathematician and physicist, and Alexander Leicester McAulay (1895 - 1969), physicist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 202-204. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100196b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Dean, Katrina, 'The Physicist's Homestead: Alexander McAuly, Hydroelectricity and Mathematical Physics in Tasmania', Tasmanian Historical Studies, 8 (2003), 56-77. Details
  • McAulay, Alex, 'Practical Astronomy in Tasmania, and a Proposal for a School Thereof', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania (1902), 85-94. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

McCarthy, G.J.

EOAS ID: biogs/P001306b.htm

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?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

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/P001306b.htm

"... 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