Biographical entry Specht, Raymond Louis (1924 - )

Summary

Raymond Louis Specht was Professor of Botany at the University of Queensland from 1966 to 1989. He has also been an active member of a phenomenal number of scientific bodies and committees and has published widely in the fields of botany, ecology and conservation.

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Events

1942 - 1946

Career position - Student Teacher, then Junior and Secondary Teacher with the Education Department of South Australia

1943 - 1946

Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc (Hons)) completed at the University of Adelaide

1947 -

Career position - Member of the ANZAAS (Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science)

1947 -

Career position - Member of the Royal Society of South Australia

1947

Career position - Grassland Ecologist on a survey of the South-East of South Australia with the Agronomy Department of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute

1948 - 1949

Career position - Botanist on the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory

1949

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Adelaide

1949 - 1950

Career position - Senior Research Fellow in Botany at the University of Adelaide

1951 - 1952

Career position - Councillor of the Royal Society of South Australia

1951 - 1954

Career position - Lecturer in Botany at the University of Adelaide

1953

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Adelaide

1955 - 1960

Career position - Senior Lecturer in Botany at the University of Adelaide

1959 - 1960

Career position - President of the Royal Society of South Australia

1961 -

Career position - Member of the Royal Society of Victoria

1961

Award - Verco Medal received from the Royal Society of South Australia

1961 - 1965

Career position - Reader in Plant Ecology at the University of Melbourne

1964

Career position - Acting-Head of the Department of Botany at the University of Melbourne

1966 -

Career position - Professor of Botany at the University of Queensland

1966 - 1978

Career position - Head of the Department of Botany at the University of Queensland

1967 -

Career position - Member of the of the Royal Society of Queensland

1970

Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Forestry at the University of Oxford, UK

1974 - 1975

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Adelaide

1975

Career position - Visiting Professor in the Department of Botany at the University of Leeds, UK

1976

Award - Research Medal received from the Royal Society of Victoria

1978 - 1984

Career position - Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the World Wildlife Fund Australia

Archival resources

Private hands (Specht, R.L.)

• Raymond Louis Specht - Records, 1946 - 1988; Private hands (Specht, R.L.). Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Specht, Ray, 'Wood, Joseph Garnett (1900-1959), Botanist', in John Ritchie and Diane Langmore (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 16, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2002, pp. 578-579. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160690b.htm. Details

Edited Books

• Clifford, Harold T. (ed.), Cambridge - Castlemaine: a Tribute to John Stewart Turner on the Occasion of his 80^th Birthday, Botany Department, University of Queensland, St Lucia, 1988, 71 pp. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Specht, R L', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-637959. Details

See also

• Ashton, D. H.; Ducker, S. C., 'John Stewart Turner 1908-1991', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 9, no. 3, 1993, pp. 278-290. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9930930278.htm. Details