Biographical entry Dalitz, Richard Henry (1925 - 2006)

Summary

Richard Dalitz completed undergraduate studies in mathematics and physics at the University of Melbourne before undertaking a PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. Dalitz spent most of his career in the UK, with ten years spent at the University of Chicago, USA. Several discoveries in high energy physics are named after him, including the Dalitz pair, the Dalitz plot, and Castillejo-Dalitz-Dyson poles. He was elected as a corresponding member of the Australian Academy of Science in 1978, and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Melbourne in 1991.

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1945

Education - Bachelor of Arts with honours (BA, hons.) in mathematics, The University of Melbourne

1946

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) physics, The University of Melbourne

c. 1946 - c. 1953

Career position - Research fellow, lecturer and reader in the Mathematical Physics Department at the University of Birmingham, UK

1950

Education - PhD in theoretical physics, University of Cambridge, UK

c. 1953 - c. 1963

Career position - Professor of Physics at the Enrico Fermi Institute of Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago, USA

1960

Award - Fellow of the Royal Society

1963 - 1990

Career position - Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, UK

1964 - 1990

Career position - Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK

1978

Award - Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science

1990 - 2006

Career position - Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK

1990 - 2006

Career position - Professor Emeritus of the University of Oxford, UK

1991

Award - Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Science

1991

Award - Honorary doctor of science (DSc), The University of Melbourne

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Richard Henry Dalitz - Records, 1948 - 2006, MS 041; 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

Journal Articles

• 'Obituraries: Richard Dalitz', Australian Academy of Science Newsletter, no. 64, December 2005-March 2006, p. 10. Also available at http://science.org.au/publications/newsletters/documents/aas64.pdf. Details