Person

Myers, David Milton (1911 - 1999)

CMG

Born
5 June 1911
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died
10 November 1999
Manly Waters Private Hospital, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Academic, Electrical engineer and Vice-Chancellor

Summary

David Myers, CMG BSc BE FIEAust was Vice-Chancellor, La Trobe University 1965-1976. Earlier he was Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney 1949-1959, Head of eletrotechnology, National Standards Laboratory 1938-1949 and Chief, CSIR Division of Electrotechnology 1945-1949.

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Chronology

1928
Career event - Student Member (StudIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1937
Career event - Junior Member (JrIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1945
Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1946
Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1953
Award - Electrical Association Premium, Institution of Engineers Australia
1958
Career position - President, Institution of Engineers Australia
13 Sep 1968
Career event - Fellow (FIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Members were designated Fellows on this date.]
1 Jan 1974
Award - Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) - Vice-Chancellor of La Trobe University
1974
Award - Kernot Memorial Medal, for distinguished engineering achievement in Australia. Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne
1977
Award - Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal - Career Achievement Award in Engineering. Institution of Engineers Australia

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Archival resources

University of Sydney, Archives

  • David Milton Myers - Biographical file, Biographical file 19; University of Sydney, Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

Book Sections

  • Myers, D. M., 'Madsen, Sir John Percival Vaissing (Vissing) (1879-1969) , physicist and engineer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 376-377. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100368b.htm. Details

Edited Books

  • Bennett, J. M.; Broomham, Rosemary; Murton, P. M.; Pearcey, T.; Rutledge, R. W. ed., Computing in Australia: the Development of a Profession (Sydney: Hale and Iremonger, 1994), 344 pp. Chapter 1, Early days of computing in Australia: Some reminiscences' pages 9-14. Details

Journal Articles

  • 'The president of the Institution for 1958 [Professor D. M. Myers]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 30 (3) (1958), 89. Details
  • 'Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal [1977 Award] to Dr David Myers', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 49 (25) (1977), 7. Details
  • 'Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal [1977 Award] to Dr David Myers', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 50 (8) (1978), 14. Details
  • Myers, D. M., 'Some mechanical aids to calculation', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 8 (11) (1936), 423-428. Details
  • Myers, D. M., 'Presidential Address: Charles Babbage and the New Industrial Revolution', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 31 (3) (1959), 41-49. Details
  • Myers, D. M., 'The Electrical Research Board', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 32 (1-2) (1960), N1-N4. Details
  • Myers, D. M.; Blunden, W. R., 'The C.S.I.R.O. Differential Analyser', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 24 (1952), 195-204. Details

Reports

  • Institution of Engineers Australia, Thirty-fourth Annual Report [1953] (1954), 16 pp. 'Prizes - Electrical Association Premium (1953 Award), to Professor D M Myers, DScEng BSc MIEAust, Sydney Division, and Mr W R Blunden, BSc BE AMIEAust, for their paper "The C.S.I.R.O. Differential Analyser"', p.2. Details

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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
  • Ludlow, Christa; Bowie, Ian; Neville, Pamela, 'Chapter 15: Engineering education in Sydney' in Sydney: from settlement to city: an engineering history of Sydney, Don Fraser, ed. (Crows Nest, New South Wales: Engineers Australia, 1989), pp. 285-298. Details

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