Myers, David Milton (1911 - 1999)

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

1931

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

1933

Education - Bachelor of Engineering (BE), University of Sydney

1936

Career position - Research officer, CSIR - Radio Research Board, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

1937

Career event - Junior Member (JrIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1937 - 1938

Career position - Research Fellow in electrical engineering, University of Sydney

1938

Education - Doctor of Science in Engineering (DScEng), University of Sydney

1938 - 1945

Career position - Officer-in-Charge, Electrotechnology Section, National Standards Laboratory - CSIR/O, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

1944 -

Career position - Electrical Research Board

1945

Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1945 - 1949

Career position - Officer-in-Charge, CSIR Electrotechnology Section, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

1946

Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1949 - 1956

Career position - Member, CSIR Council / Advisory Council - CSIRO, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

1949 - 1959

Career position - Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney

1953

Award - Electrical Association Premium, Institution of Engineers Australia

1958

Career position - President, Institution of Engineers Australia

1960 - 1965

Career position - Dean of Applied Science, University of British Columbia

1965 - 1976

Career position - Vic-Chancellor, La Trobe University

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

1976

Award - Doctor of the Univeristy (D.Univ), La Trobe University

1977

Award - Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal - Career Achievement Award in Engineering. Institution of Engineers Australia

1979 - 1980

Career position - Member, Committee of Inquiry into the Fluoridation of Victorian Water Supplies, Victorian Parliament

Related entries

Archival resources

University of Sydney, Archives

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

Published resources

Books

• CSIRO, CSIRO research for Australia: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Canberra: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation, 1962), 64 pp, https://www.eoas.info/bib-pdf/ASBS15940.pdf. Details

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. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/madsen-sir-john-percival-vaissing-vissing-7456. 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
• 'Past presidents - where are they now?', Engineers Australia, 50 (7) (1978), 20-22. 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 [1959] - 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 (10-11) (1952), 195-204. Details

Parliamentary papers

• Myers, D. M.; Plueckhahn, Vernon D.; Rees, A. L. G., Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Fluoridation of Victorian Water Supplies for 1979-80 (Melbourne: Government Printer, 1980), 278 pp, https://pov.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_GB/parl_paper/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:22415/one. 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

Resources

• 'Myers, D M (19110605-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-616285. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Myers, David Milton', 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/P001767p.htm. Details

Theses

• Myers, D. M., 'A new mechanical means of solution of differential equations of the second order, and its application to engineering and other problems.', DScEng thesis, University of Sydney, 1938. 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
• 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