Biographical entry Murray, Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald (1900 - 1967)

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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1914

Education - Entered St Ignatius' College in Riverview, New South Wales

1922

Education - Matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, UK

1922

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Sydney

1924

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Oxford

1924 - 1929

Career position - Macleay Fellow of the Linnean Society of New South Wales and Lecturer and Demonstrator in Zoology at the University of Sydney

1926

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the 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 position - Bones: A Study of the Development and Structure of the Vertebrate Skeleton published

c. 1936 - c. 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 at the University of Sydney

1954 -

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

1960 -

Career position - Reader, later Research Fellow in Zoology at the University of New England in New South Wales

Related entries

Published resources

Book Sections

• Wimborne, Brian, 'Murray, Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald (1900-1967), Zoologist', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 15, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000, pp. 454-455. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150527b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Dr. P.D.F. Murray: obituary', Australian Zoologist, vol. 14, no. 2, 1967, p. 227. Details
• Murray, P. D. F. and Crocker, R. L., 'Obituary: John McLuckie', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 19, no. 3, 1956, pp. 109-110. Details
• Rogers, W. P., 'Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald Murray', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol. 1, no. 3, 1968, pp. 71-76. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9680130071.htm. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Murray, P D F', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-998446. Details
• Rogers, W. P., 'Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald Murray 1900-1967', in Australian Academy of Science Biographical Memoirs, Australian Academy of Science, 2006, http://www.science.org.au/fellows/memoirs/murray.html. Details

See also

• Norris, K. R., 'Ian Murray Mackerras 1898-1980', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 5, no. 2, 1981, pp. 98-114. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9810520098.htm. Details