Person
Matheson, James Adam Louis (Louis) (1912 - 2002)
KBE CMG FTSE HonFIEAust
- Born
- 11 February 1912
Yorkshire, England - Died
- 27 March 2002
Australia - Occupation
- Vice-Chancellor and Civil engineer
Summary
Sir Louis Matheson was the first Vice-chancellor of Monash University, Victoria, 1960-1976. The Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash University is named in his honour.
Details
Chronology
- 1933 - 1938
- Career position - Civil Engineer
- 1938 - 1946
- Career position - Lecturer, Birmingham University, UK
- 1944
- Award - Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
- 1946 - 1950
- Career position - Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Melbourne
- 1950 - 1959
- Career position - Beyer Professor of Engineering, Manchester University, UK
- 1959
- Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 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 Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (AVCC)
- 1967 - 1968
- Career position - Chairman of the Association of Commonwealth Universities
- 1968
- Career event - Fellow (FIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Members were designated Fellows on this date.]
- 1969 - 1973
- Career position - President of the Council of the Science Museum of Victoria
- 1970
- Award - Kernot Memorial Medal, for distinguished engineering achievement in Australia. Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne
- 1972
- Award - Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) - Vice Chancellor, Monash University
- 1973 - 1975
- Career position - Chancellor of Papua New Guinea University of Technology
- 1975
- Award - Doctor of Laws (LLD), honoris causa, University of Melbourne
- 1975
- Career position - President, Institution of Engineers, Australia
- 1975
- Career position - Member of the Post-Secondary Education Committee Victoria
- 1975 - 1976
- Career position - Chairman of the Australian Science and Technology Council
- 1975 - 1987
- Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
- 1976
- Award - The Order of the British Empire - Knights Commander (KBE) - For services to education and to Victoria
- 1976
- Award - Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal - Career Achievement Award in Engineering. Institution of Engineers Australia
- 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
- 1981
- Award - Honorary Fellow (HonFIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1987
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Foundation Fellow AATS 1975]
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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 (South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1980), 180 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Annual Conference : Institution's highest award to Sir Louis Matheson [Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal 1977 ]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 49 (11) (1977), 28. Details
- Smyth, Mike, 'Honorary Fellows : Improve contact with unions', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 53 (3) (1981), 15. Details
Newspaper Articles
- Marginson, Simon, 'Obituary: Sir James Adam Louis Matheson, KBE, MBE, CMG, Founding Vice-Chancellor of Monash University', The Age (2002). Details
Reports
- Institution of Engineers Australia, Annual Report 1980 [Sixty-first Annual Report] (1981), 16 pp. 'Institution Honours - Sir Louis Matheson, KBE CMG FIEAust elected Honorary Fellow during the current Council year', p.10. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6687794. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/92142598. Details
- 'Matheson, Louis (1912-2002)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-503617. Details
- 'Awarded honorary LLD, 1975', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. 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
- Sinclair, Bruce, 'Some National Presidents of IEAust', in Eleventh National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Federation Engineering a Nation; Proceedings (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2001), p. 259., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.521182246276277. Details
Ailie Smith; Ken McInnes
Created: 3 December 2003, Last modified: 15 March 2023