Biographical entry Hales, Anton Linder (1911 - 2006)

Summary

Anton Hales was Foundation Director (1973) then Emeritus Professor (1978) of the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University. He officially retired from the School at the age of eighty-nine and has had a lecture room and the A L Hales Honours Year Scholarships in Geophysics and Geochemistry named in his honour. Prior to this Hales was Director of the Bernard Price Institute of Geophysical Research in South Africa and of the Geoscience Division of the University of Texas, USA. Throughout his career he was involved in many aspects of earth sciences research, including geophysics. Hales was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, the Royal Astronomical Society, the American Geophysical Union, and of the Australian Academy of Science.

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1929

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Cape Town, South Africa

1930

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Cape Town, South Africa

1931

Career position - Junior Lecturer of Applied Mathematics at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa

1933

Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Mathematics completed at St John's College, University of Cambridge, UK

1933 - 1945

Career position - Junior Lecturer, then Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

1936

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Cape Town, South Africa

1946 - 1949

Career position - Senior Research Officer at the Bernard Price Institute of Geophysical Research, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

1949 - 1954

Career position - Professor of Applied Mathematics and Head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa

1952

Career position - Master of Arts (MA) completed at the University of Cambridge, UK

1954 - 1962

Career position - Director of the Bernard Price Institute of Geophysical Research and Carnegie-Price Professor of Geophysics

1962 - 1973

Career position - Director of the Geoscience Division of the University of Texas, USA

1970 - 1971

Career position - Acting Vice-President for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas, USA

1973 - 1978

Career position - Foundation Director of the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra

1976 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1978 - 2002

Career position - Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra

2003

Award - Centenary Medal received from the Australian Government

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Published resources

Journal Articles

• Hales, A. L., 'Keith Edward Bullen 1906-1976', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol. 4, no. 2, 1979, pp. 42-64. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9790420042.htm. Details

Online Resources

• Lambeck, Kurt, Interview with Professor Anton Hales, Interviews with Australian scientists, Australian Academy of Science, 2002, http://www.science.org.au/scientists/interviews/h/hales.html. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Hales, Anton', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1150429. Details