Biographical entry Matheson, James Adam Louis (Louis) (1912 - 2002)

Summary

Louis Matheson was the first Vice-chancellor of Monash University, Victoria, 1960-1976.

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Events

1933 - 1938

Career position - Civil Engineer

1938 - 1946

Career position - Lecturer at Birmingham University, UK

1944

Award - Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

1946 - 1950

Career position - Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Melbourne

1950 - 1959

Career position - Beyer Professor of Engineering at Manchester University, UK

1960

Life event - Settled in Australia

1960 - 1976

Career position - Vice-Chancellor of Monash University, Victoria

1961 - 1963

Career position - Member of the Ramsay Committee on the Development of Tertiary Education in Victoria

1962 - 1963

Career position - Member of the Royal Commission into the Failure of Kings Bridge

1962 - 1967

Career position - Member of the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Advisory Council

1964 - 1983

Career position - Trustee of the Science Museum of Victoria

1965 - 1968

Career position - Member of the Interim Council at the University of Papua New Guinea

1965 - 1981

Career position - Member of the Council of the Institution of Engineers, Australia

1966 - 1972

Career position - Chairman of the Council of Papua New Guinea University of Technology

1967 - 1968

Career position - Chairman of the Association of Commonwealth Universities

1967 - 1968

Career position - Chairman of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (AVCC)

1969 - 1973

Career position - President of the Council of the Science Museum of Victoria

1970

Award - Kernot Medal received from the University of Melbourne

1972

Award - Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

1973 - 1975

Career position - Chancellor of Papua New Guinea University of Technology

1975

Career position - Member of the Post-Secondary Education Committee Victoria

1975

Career position - President of the Institution of Engineers, Australia

1975 - 1976

Career position - Chairman of the Australian Science and Technology Council

1976

Award - Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)

1977

Award - P. N. Russell Memorial Medal received

1977

Career position - Chairman of the Newport Review Panel

1977 - 1978

Career position - Member of the Australian Science and Technology Council

1977 - 1979

Career position - Director of the Nauru Phosphate Corporation

1978 - 1983

Career position - Chairman of the Planning and Finance Committee of the Schools Commission in Victoria

Related entries

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Biographical cuttings on James Adam Louis Matheson, former Vice-Chancellor of Monash University, Cuttings files BIOG; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

• Matheson, Louis, Still learning: Louis Matheson, Macmillan, South Melbourne, 1980, 180 pp. Details

Newspaper Articles

• Marginson, Simon, 'Obituary: Sir James Adam Louis Matheson, KBE, MBE, CMG, Founding Vice-Chancellor of Monash University', The Age, 6 April 2002. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Matheson, Louis', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-503617. Details

See also

• 'Dr Keith Thomas Henry Farrer OBE MA DSc FTSE - Biographical Note', Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, http://www.atse.org.au/index.php?sectionid=648. Details