Biographical entry Ward, Hugh Kingsley (1887 - 1972)

Summary

Hugh Kingsley Ward was the Bosch Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Sydney from 1935 to 1952, then medical officer with the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service. Previously he worked in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Ward received the Military Cross with 2 Bars for his outstanding work and braveness in treating wounded service men during World War I.

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Events

c. 1910

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) completed at the University of Sydney

1910 - 1911

Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Sydney Hospital

1911 - 1914

Career position - (New South Wales) Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford, UK

1914 - 1917

Career position - War service in the Royal Army Medical Corps Special Reserve

1923 - 1924

Career position - Rockefeller Fellow in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology at Harvard University, USA

1924 - 1926

Career position - Bacteriologist at the University of Oxford

1926 - 1934

Career position - Assistant Professor of Bacteriology at Harvard University

1935 - 1952

Career position - Bosch Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Sydney

1936 -

Founding member of the National Health and Medical Research Council

1948 - 1953

Career position - Council member of the Australian National University

1952

Life event - Retried from the University of Sydney

1952 - 1953

Career position - Chairman of the Australian National Research Council

1952 - 1966

Career position - Medical Officer with the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Office in Sydney

Published resources

Book Sections

• Fenner, Frank; De Burgh, P.M., 'Ward, Hugh Kingsley (1887-1972), Bacteriologist', in John Ritchie and Diane Langmore (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 16, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2002, pp. 488-489. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160580b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Ward, H. K., 'Obituary: Dr. N. E. Goldsworthy', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 23, no. 7, 1961, pp. 214-215. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Ward, H K', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-633765. Details

See also

• Courtice F. C ., 'Robert John Walsh', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 2, 1985, pp. 277-291. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9850620277.htm. Details