Biographical entry Woodruff, Harold Addison (1877 - 1966)

Summary

Harold Addison Woodruff was professor of veterinary pathology and director of the veterinary institute at the University of Melbourne from 1913 until the veterinary school closed in 1928. He then became director of the bacteriology department, being promoted to professor in 1935 and retiring in 1944. He established the Public Health Laboratories (later the Diagnostic Unit) within the bounds of the university and is commemorated by the Woodruff Theatre in the microbiology building. Woodruff was educated at the Royal Veterinary College, London (MRCVS), London University? (MRCS, LRCP) and at the University of Melbourne (BSc)

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1898

Education - Educated at the Royal Veterinary College, London (MRCVS)

1898 - 1899

Career position - Tutor in Surgery at the Royal Veterinary College, London

1899

Career position - Professor of Veterinary Science and Bacteriology at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester, UK

1900 - 1908

Career position - Professor of Materia Medica and Hygiene at the Royal Veterinary College

1908 - 1912

Career position - Professor of Veterinary Medicine at the Royal Veterinary College

1912

Education - MRCS, LRCP

1913 - 1915

Career position - Professor of Veterinary Pathology and Director of the Veterinary Institute at the University of Melbourne

1915 - 1917

Career position - Major with the Australian Army Veterinary Corps

1917 - 1928

Career position - Professor of Veterinary Pathology and Director of the Veterinary Institute at the University of Melbourne

1920

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

1920 - 1922

Career position - President of the Veterinary Association of Victoria

1922

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

1922 - 1923

Career position - President of the Australian Veterinary Association

1928 - 1944

Career position - Director of the Bacteriology Department at the University of Melbourne

1935 - 1944

Career position - Professor of the Bacteriology at the University of Melbourne

Published resources

Book Sections

• Killip, Norah L., 'Woodruff, Harold Addison (1877-1966), Veterinary Pathologist and Bacteriologist', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 12, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 562-563. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120629b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Schedvin, C. B., 'Environment, Economy and Australian Biology 1890-1939', Historical Studies, vol. 21, 1984, pp. 11-28. Details

Online Resources

• 'Woodruff, H A', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-512216. Details

See also

• French, E. L. and Sutherland, A. K., 'Arthur William Turner 1900-1989', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 9, no. 1, 1992, pp. 49-63. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9920910049.htm. Details