Person
Kerr, Allen (1926 - 2023)
AO FAA FRS
- Born
- 21 May 1926
Edinburgh, Scotland - Died
- 14 December 2023
- Occupation
- Botanist
Summary
Allen Kerr was Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Adelaide. He first joined the University in 1951 and spent around three years on secondment to the Tea Research Institute in Ceylon, where he headed the departments of Plant Pathology and Nematology. Kerr's most significant work was his study of crown gall - a plant cancer induced by Agrobacterium tumerfaciens.
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Chronology
- 1947
- Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc(Hons)), University of Edinburgh
- 1947 - 1951
- Career position - Assistant Mycologist at the North of Scotland College of Agriculture
- 1951 - 1958
- Career position - Lecturer in Plant Pathology, University of Adelaide
- 1956
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Adelaide
- 1959 - 1967
- Career position - Senior Lecturer in Plant Pathology, University of Adelaide
- 1963 - 1966
- Career position - Head of the Departments of Plant Pathology and Nematology at the Tea Research Institute in Ceylon (secondment)
- 1968 - 1980
- Career position - Reader in Plant Pathology, University of Adelaide
- 1978
- Award - Walter Burfitt Prize, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1978 - 1983
- Career position - Vice-President of the International Society for Plant Pathology
- 1978 - 2023
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1980 - 1983
- Career position - President, Australasian Plant Pathology Society
- 1980 - 1989
- Career position - Personal Chair in Plant Pathology at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute of the University of Adelaide
- 1982
- Award - Ruth Allen Award, American Phytopathological Society
- 1986 - 2023
- Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
- 1990
- Award - Australia Prize (in the field of Biological Sciences relating to agriculture or the environment) (joint), Australian Government
- 1990
- Career position - Head of the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Adelaide
- 1991 - ?
- Award - Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences
- 1991
- Career position - Head of the Department of Crop Protection, University of Adelaide
- 1991
- Life event - Retired
- 1991
- Award - Elvin Charles Stackman Award, University of Minnesota
- 1991
- Award - Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences
- 1992
- Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to science, particularly to plant pathology
- 1995
- Career position - Inaugural presentation of the Allen Kerr Post-graduate Prize of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society in Christchurch, New Zealand
- 1995 - 2023
- Award - Fellow, Australasian Plant Pathology Society
- 1996 - 2023
- Award - Fellow, American Phytopathological Society
- 2001 - 2023
- Award - Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
Related entries
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Kerr, Allen, Davies, Kerrie and Stirling, Graham, 'Henry Robert Wallace 1924-2011', Historical Records of Australian Science, 23 (2) (2012), 202-11, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR12008. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4731736. Details
- 'Kerr, Allen (1926 - )', Recipients [of the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science, 2000 - 2017], Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, 2017, https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20171113020148/http://www.science.gov.au/community/PrimeMinistersPrizesforScience/Recipients/1990-1999/Pages/AllenKerr-EugeneNestor-JeffSchell.aspx. Details
- 'Kerr, Allen (19260521-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476335. Details
Annette Alafaci
Created: 14 February 2006, Last modified: 30 April 2024