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Murray, Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald (1900 - 1967)

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    Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald Murray
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Born
18 June 1900
Dorchester, Dorset, England
Died
17 May 1967
at sea
Occupation
Zoologist

Summary

Patrick Murray was appointed Challis professor of zoology at the University of Sydney in 1949 and resigned in 1960. He then took up a readership in zoology (later, research fellow) at the University of New England where he specialized in experimental embryology. Prior to these two posts Murray worked overseas at many prestigious institutes including the Strangeways Research Laboratory at the University of Cambridge (UK); the University of Freiburg (Germany); Bedford College for Women, University of London; and at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School.

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Chronology

1914
Education - Entered St Ignatius' College in Riverview, New South Wales
1919? - 1966
Career position - Member, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
1922
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Sydney
1922
Education - Matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, UK
1924
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Oxford
1924 - 1926
Award - Linnean Macleay Fellow (Zoology), for study at the University of Sydney
1924 - 1929
Career position - Lecturer and Demonstrator in Zoology at the University of Sydney
1924 - 1967
Award - Fellow, Linnean Society of New South Wales
1926
Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Sydney
1926 - 1929
Career position - Lecturer in Zoology, University of Sydney
1929 - c. 1930
Career position - Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the universities of Cambridge (UK) and Freiburg (Germany)
1931 - 1935
Career position - Smithson Fellow of Natural Sciences at the Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge
1936
Career event - Bones: a study of the development and structure of the vertebrate skeleton published
1938 - 1939
Career position - Demonstrator in Zoology at Bedford College for Women, University of London
1939 - 1949
Career position - Reader in Biology and Comparative Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, UK
1949 - 1960
Career position - Challis Professor of Zoology, University of Sydney
1950 - 1960
Career position - Trustee, Australian Museum
1954 - 1967
Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1954 - 1967
Award - Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1957
Career position - President, Section D, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
1960 - 1966
Career position - Reader, Department of Zoology, University of New England
1966 - 1967
Career position - Research Fellow, University of New England
1966 - 1967
Award - Life Member, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

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Books

  • Murray, P. D. F., Bones: a study of development and structure of the vertebrate skeleton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936), 203 pp. Details
  • Murray, P. D. F., Biology: an introduction to medical and other studies (London: Macmillan, 1950), 600 pp. Details

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Journal Articles

  • 'Dr. P.D.F. Murray: obituary', Australian Zoologist, 14 (2) (1967), 227. Details
  • Murray, P. D. F.; and Crocker, R. L., 'Obituary: John McLuckie', Australian Journal of Science, 19 (3) (1956), 109-110. Details
  • Rogers, W. P., 'Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald Murray', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 1 (3) (1968), 71-76. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9680130071.htm. Details

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See also

  • Norris, K. R., 'Ian Murray Mackerras 1898-1980', Historical Records of Australian Science, 5 (2) (1981), 98-114. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9810520098. Details
  • Prince, J. H., The first one hundred years of the Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W. 1879 - 1979 (Sydney: Royal Zoolgical Society of New South Wales, 1979), 81 pp. Details

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