Person
Hyde, Bruce Godfrey (1925 - 2014)
FAA
- Born
- 13 March 1925
Abercynon, Wales - Died
- 16 February 2014
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Occupation
- Inorganic chemist
Summary
Bruce Hyde was an inorganic chemist who made major contributions to solid state chemistry, particularly to the characterisation of non-stoichiometry and structural complexity in the solid state. After holding a personal chair in chemistry at the University of Western Australia he became Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Australian National University in 1979, being appointed Emeritus Professor on retiring in 1990.
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Chronology
- 1951
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Bristol, UK
- 1954
- Life event - Migrated to Australia
- 1957 - 1961
- Career position - Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Melbourne
- 1962
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Bristol
- 1962 - 1964
- Career position - Senior Research Fellow in the Chemistry Department of the Arizona State University, USA
- 1964 - 1975
- Career position - Senior Lecturer then Reader in Chemistry at the University of Western Australia
- 1968 - 1990
- Career position - Visiting Fellow at Arizona State University (multiple three to six month stints)
- 1972 - 1990
- Career position - Visiting Fellow at Lund University in Sweden (multiple three to six month stints)
- 1973
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Bristol
- 1975 - 1977
- Career position - Chair of Inorganic Chemistry (Solid State Chemistry) at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands
- 1975 - 2014
- Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1976
- Award - H. G. Smith Memorial Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- 1977 - 1978
- Career position - Personal Professor in Chemistry at the University of Western Australia
- 1979 - 1990
- Career position - Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University in Canberra
- 1986
- Award - Archibald Liversidge Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1990
- Career position - Retired and appointed Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the Australian National University
Related entries
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Hyde, B. G.; and Day, P, 'John Stuart Anderson', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (2) (1992), 127-49. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920920127. Details
- Withers, Ray, Sellar, Jeffrey, O'Keefe, Michael and Hyde, Stephen, 'Bruce Godfrey Hyde 1925-2014', Historical Records of Australian Science, 26 (2) (2015), 179-91, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR15006. Details
Resources
- 'Hyde, Bruce Godfrey (1925-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473955. Details
Annette Alafaci and Helen Cohn
Created: 15 November 2005, Last modified: 19 June 2019