Biographical entry Priestley, Henry James (1883 - 1932)

Summary

Henry James Priestley was Professor, first of mathematics and physics, and later of mathematics, University of Queensland 1910-32. He played an active role in the academic life of the university, with service on the senate, as dean of the faculty of science, as president of the board of faculties (later professorial board) and as a member of many standing committees of senate and board. He was also a Founder and long-term president of the Queensland branch of the Mathematical Association of Great Britain.

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1905

Education - 5th wrangler at Jesus College, Cambridge, UK

1906 - 1907

Career position - Experimental physics Researcher at the University of Cambridge

1907 - 1910

Career position - Lecturer in Mathematics at he University of Manchester, UK

1911 - 1919

Career position - Professor of Mathematics and Physics, and Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Queensland

1919 - 1932

Career position - Professor of Mathematics at the University of Queensland

1921

Career position - President of Section A of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

1923

Career position - President of the Royal Society of Queensland

Published resources

Book Sections

• Davis, C. S., 'Priestley, Henry James (1883-1932), Professor of Mathematics', in Geoffrey Serle (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 11, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988, p. 295. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110302b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• 'Priestley, Henry James', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001784p.htm. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Priestley, Henry James', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1466832. Details