Biographical entry Hush, Noel Sydney (1924 - )

Summary

Noel Sydney Hush is Emeritus Professor of the School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney. He has been at the University for over thirty years and was its founder of the Theoretical Chemistry discipline. Before arriving at the University of Sydney, Hush worked in England at the universities of Manchester and Bristol. He has also held numerous prestigious visiting scientist posts at universities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Noel Hush is author of well over two hundred publications and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Royal Australian Chemical Institute and the Royal Society (UK). He was appointed a Commander Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for his services in 1993.

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1946 - 1949

Career position - Research Fellow in Chemistry at the University of Sydney

1950 - 1954

Career position - Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at the University of Manchester, UK

1955 - 1971

Career position - Lecturer and Reader in Chemistry at the University of Bristol, UK

1956

Career position - Consultant to the UK Ministry of Supply

1965

Career position - Visiting Professor at Florida State University, USA

1971 - 1989

Career position - Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney

1972 - 1974

Career position - Head of the Chemical School at the University of Sydney

1975 -

Career position - Research Collaborator at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the USA

1977 -

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

1981

Career position - Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, UK

1984 - 1989

Career position - Member of the National Committee for Chemistry

1984 - 1989

Career position - Member of the Australian Research Grants Committee

1989 -

Career position - Foundation Professor Emeritus of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Sydney

1990

Award - Centenary Medal received from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

1993

Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

1994

Award - Flinders Medal received from the Australian Academy of Science

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Noel Sydney Hush - Records, 1967 - 1991, MS 229; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details

Online Resources

• 'Hush, N S', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-868805. Details