Person
Barber, Horace Newton (1914 - 1971)
FAA FRS
- Born
- 26 May 1914
Warburton, Cheshire, England - Died
- 16 April 1971
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Botanist
Summary
Horace Barber was Professor of Botany, University of New South Wales from 1964 and Head of the School of Biological Sciences from 1966. Earlier he was Professor of Botany, University of Tasmania 1947-1963 and a lecturer at the University of Sydney 1946-1947. His research interests were in cytology and genetics. He made especially important contributions to the studies of plant cytogenetics and extended the knowledge of chromosome behaviour. Whilst in Tasmania he had a keen interest in eucalypts and was the first to investigate the species which was subsequently named in his honour: E. barberi L. Johnson & D. Blaxell (1972)
Details
Born Warburton, Cheshire, 26 May 1914. Died Sydney, 16 April 1971. Educated Cambridge (BA 1936; MA 1944; ScD 1963) and London University (PhD 1942). Research Cytologist, John Innes Horticultural Institute, London 1936-40, Scientific Officer, Telecommunications Research Establishment, Ministry of Aircraft Production 1941-45, Flight Lieutenant RAFVR (Hon) with service in Mediterranean and Southeast Asia Commands 1943-45, Lecturer in Botany, University of Sydney 1946-47, Professor of Botany, University of Tasmania 1947-63, Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Tasmania 1951-53, Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, California Institute of Technology 1953-54, Foundation Professor of Botany, University of New South Wales, 1964-71 and Head of the School of Biological Sciences 1966-71. Chairman, Professorial Board, University of Tasmania 1956-59, Royal Society Visiting Professor, University of Ibadan, Nigeria 1967. Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1958, Fellow, Royal Society 1963.
Chronology
- 1936
- Education - Bachelor of Arts in Botany (BA), University of Cambridge, UK
- 1936 - 1940
- Career position - Research Cytologist, John Innes Horticultural Institute, London
- 1941 - 1945
- Career position - Scientific Officer at the Telecommunications Research Establishment of the Ministry of Aircraft Production in England
- 1942
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), London University
- 1943 - 1945
- Career position - Flight Lieutenant RAFVR (Hon)
- 1944
- Education - Master of Arts (MA), Cambridge University
- 1946 - 1947
- Career position - Lecturer in Botany, University of Sydney
- 1947 - 1963
- Career position - Professor of Botany, University of Tasmania
- 1951 - 1953
- Career position - Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Tasmania
- 1953 - 1954
- Career position - Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, California Institute of Technology
- 1956 - 1959
- Career position - Chairman of the Professorial Board of the University of Tasmania
- 1958
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
- 1963
- Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
- 1963
- Education - Doctor of Science (ScD), University of Cambridge
- 1964 - 1971
- Career position - Foundation Professor of Botany, University of New South Wales
- 1967
- Career position - Royal Society Visiting Professor, University of Ibadan in Nigeria
- 1972
- Taxonomy event - Honoured with Eucalyptus barberi L.Johnson & D.Blaxell
Related entries
Children
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Horace Newton Barber - Records, 1926 - 1974, ML MSS 3907; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Book Sections
- Anderson, Derek, 'Barber, Horace Newton (1914-1971), Botanist and Geneticist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 13 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), pp. 106-107. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130128b.htm. Details
Resources
- Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Royal Society of London, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1972.0002. Details
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21165067. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94873147. Details
- 'Horace Barber - Citation at year of election, 1958', Fellows of the Academy, Australian Academy of Science, 2019, https://www.science.org.au/profile/horace-barber. Details
- 'Barber, H N (1914-1971)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-635960. Details
See also
- Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Walker, R.H.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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