Person
Priestley, Henry James (1883 - 1932)
- Born
- 10 April 1883
Crouch Hill, London, England - Died
- 26 February 1932
Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Mathematician
Summary
Henry Priestley was Professor, first of mathematics and physics, and later of mathematics, University of Queensland 1910-1932. The psotion in physics was offered to Thomas Parnell. He played an active role in the academic life of the university, with service on the senate, as dean of the faculty of science, as president of the board of faculties (later professorial board) and as a member of many standing committees of senate and board. He was also a Founder and long-term president of the Queensland branch of the Mathematical Association of Great Britain.
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Chronology
- 1905
- Education - 5th wrangler at Jesus College, Cambridge, UK
- 1906 - 1907
- Career position - Experimental physics Researcher, University of Cambridge
- 1907 - 1910
- Career position - Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Manchester, UK
- 1911 - 1919
- Career position - Professor of Mathematics and Physics, and Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Queensland
- 1919 -
- Career position - Foundation Councillor (Mathematics), Australian National Research Council
- 1919 - 1932
- Career position - Professor of Mathematics, University of Queensland
- 1921
- Career position - President, Section A (Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1923
- Career position - President, Royal Society of Queensland
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Published resources
Books
- Gregory, Helen, Vivant Professores: Distinguished Members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Library, 1987), 180 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Davis, C. S., 'Priestley, Henry James (1883-1932), professor of mathematics' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), p. 295, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/priestley-henry-james-8115. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21538939. Details
- 'Priestley, Henry James (1883-1932)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1466832. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Priestley, Henry James', 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/P001784p.htm. Details
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Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 5 December 2025
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