McAulay, Alexander Leicester (1895 - 1969)

Summary

Alexander L. McAulay, the son of Professor Alexander McAulay, was Professor of Physics at the University of Tasmania from 1927-1959. His research included cosmic radiation, particle physics and metal surface electrochemistry. He established an optical laboratory during World War II and was the leader of the Optical Munitions team at the University of Tasmania.

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Chronology

1916

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Tasmania

1921

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Manchester, UK

1921

Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Cambridge, UK

1922 - 1927

Career position - Lecturer in Physics, University of Tasmania

1927 - 1959

Career position - Professor of Physics, University of Tasmania

1938

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus divaricata McAulay & Brett (= minor variant of E. gunnii Hook. F.)

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Archival resources

Private hands (McAulay, I.)

• Alexander Leicester McAulay - Records, 1895 - 1969; Private hands (McAulay, I.). Details

University of Tasmania Library, Special/Rare Collection

• Alexander Leicester McAulay - Records, 1919 - 1925, UT.52 and 68; University of Tasmania Library, Special/Rare Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Exhibition Papers, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/exhib_papers.htm. Details
• The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/omp.htm. Details
• McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

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

• 'Obituary: Leicester McAulay', Australian Journal of Science, 32 (1) (1969), 15. Details
• Humble, John; Dildig, Marc, '100 years of cosmic rays - an Australian perspective: part 2, Tasmania', Australian Physics, 50 (6) (2013), 195-9. Details
• McAulay, A. L. and Cruickshank, F. D., 'The male meiotic cycle in the genus Eucalyptus', Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1937 (1938), 41-5. Details
• McAulay, A. L., Cruickshank, F. D. and Brett, R. G., 'Chromosome numbers of Eucalyptus globulus and Eucalyptus johnstoni', Nature, 138 (1936), 550-1. https://doi.org/10.1038/138550b0. 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/Q21520204. Details
• 'McAulay, Alexander Leicester (1895-1969)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1468090. Details

Resource Sections

• 'McAulay, Alexander Leicester', 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/P001307p.htm. Details
• 'McAulay, Alexander Leicester', in The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/people/mcaulay.htm. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_m.html. Details
• Bolton, H. C., 'Optical Instruments in Australia in the 1939-45 War: successes and lost opportunities', Australian Physicist (1990). http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/bolton2.htm. Details
• Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
• Humble, John and Duldig, Marc, '100 years of cosmic rays - an Australian perspective, part 2: Tasmania', Australian Physics, 50 (6) (2013), 195-9, http://aip.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Australian%20Physics/Aust%20Phys%2050-6.pdf. Details
• Mellor, D.P., 'Optical Munitions', Chapter 12 in Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 4: Civil, volume 5 'The Role of Science and Industry', Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1958 (1958). http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/mellor.htm. Details
• Paterson, M. S., 'John Conrad Jaeger 1907-1979', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (3) (1982), 64-88. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9820530064. Details