Person

Sissons, Alfred Thomas Stanley (1888 - 1975)

Born
22 April 1888
Malvern, Victoria, Australia
Died
30 June 1975
Griffith, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Occupation
Chemist

Summary

Alfred Sissons was for over 40 years Director of Studies and Dean of the Victorian College of Pharmacy. During this time he instituted many changes in the way in which pharmacy was taught by introducing evening and correspondence classes for apprentices, restructuring the curriculum and extending the course to four years. By the late 1930s this course was considered the model for Australian and New Zealand. Sissons wrote on the history of pharmacy in Victoria in the Australian Journal of Pharmacy of which he also served as editor. He was largely responsible for pharmacy becoming a separate Section in ANZAAS, and in 1946 was President of Section O: Pharmaceutical Science.

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Chronology

1915
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
1915
Education - Diploma of Education (DipEd), Victorian Teachers College
1920 - 1962
Career position - Director of Studies (later Dean), Victorian College of Pharmacy
1937
Career event - Member, Australian National Research Council
1937
Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
1946
Career position - President, Section O (Pharmaceutical Science), Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

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Book Sections

  • Haines, Gregory, 'Sissons, Alfred Thomas Stanley (1888-1975), Chemist and College Dean' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 252-253. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160301b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Anon, 'Death of Mr A. T. S. Sissons', Australian Journal of Pharmacy, 56 (667) (1975), 461-2. Details

Resources

See also

  • Bomford, Janette M., The Victorian College of Pharmacy: 125 years of history, 1881 - 2006 (Parkville, Vic.: Victorian College of Pharmacy, 2006), 316 pp. Details

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