Biographical entry Badger, Geoffrey Malcolm (1916 - 2002)

Summary

(Sir) Geoffrey Malcolm Badger was Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Adelaide 1955-64. He was a member of the CSIRO Executive 1964-65, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor, University of Adelaide 1966-77 and then Research Professor of Organic Chemistry 1977-79.

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Events

1941

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at London University

1941 - 1943

Career position - Research Chemist at ICI in Manchester, UK

1943 - 1946

Career position - Instructor Lieutenant with the Royal Navy

1946 - 1949

Career position - ICI Research Fellow at the Glasgow University

1949

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the Glasgow University, Scotland

1949 - 1950

Career position - Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide

1950

Award - H.G. Smith Memorial Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute

1951 - 1954

Career position - Reader at the University of Adelaide

1955 - 1964

Career position - Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Adelaide

1960 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1964 - 1965

Career position - Member of Executive at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)

1966 - 1967

Career position - Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Adelaide

1967 - 1977

Career position - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide

1971

Award - A.E. Leighton Medal received from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute

1974

Award - W.D. Chapman Medal received from the Institution of Engineers Australia

1974 - 1978

Career position - President of the Australian Academy of Science

1975

Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

1977 - 1982

Career position - Chairman of the Australian Science and Technology Council

1978 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)

1979

Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt cr)

1981

Award - ANZAAS Medallist (Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science)

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Geoffrey Malcolm Badger - Records, 1962 - 1982, MS 164; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide

• Geoffrey Malcolm Badger - Records, 1939 - 1985, MSS 0011; Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details

Books

• Badger, Geoffrey Malcolm, Explorers of Australia, Kangaroo Press, East Roseville, New South Wales, 2001, 312 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Sir Geoffrey Badger AO, FRSC, FTS, FAA, FRACI, FACE, FAIM, Fellow ANZAAS, 1916-2002', Chemistry in Australia, vol. 70, no. 2, 2003, pp. 30-32. Details
• Badger, Geoffrey, 'The Role of Government in Australian Science', Australian Physicist, vol. 17, no. 10, 1980, pp. 157-160. Details
• Badger, Geoffrey, 'One Hundred Years of Teaching of Chemistry: Centenary Dinner at the University of Adelaide, 9 November 1985', Lumen, 1985, pp. 4-5. Details

Online Resources

• 'Badger, Geoffrey Malcolm - Ms 164', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms164.html. Details
• Crompton, Bob, 'Interview with Sir Geoffrey Badger', in Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 30 April 1997, http://www.science.org.au/scientists/interviews/b/gb.html. Details
• 'Badger, G M', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-458486. 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_b.html. Details
• Coates, J. H., 'Denis Oswald Jordan 1914-82', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 2, 1985, pp. 237-246. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9850620237.htm. Details
• Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Melbourne, 1995, 267 pp. Details