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.
He is attributed with the design of Waddamana hydro power station in 1910.
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
- 1910 - 1914
- Career position - Designed Waddamana hydro power station
- 1921 -
- Career position - Foundation Councillor (Mathematics), Australian National Research Council
- 1924
- Career position - Committee Member, Australian Branch, Institute of Physics
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Children
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. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcaulay-alexander-7293. 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
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4719461. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/29189463. Details
- 'McAulay, Alex (1863-1931)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1470994. Details
Resource Sections
- 'McAulay, Alexander', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001306p.htm. Details
Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 March 2025
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