Person

Catcheside, David Guthrie (1907 - 1994)

FAA FRS

Born
31 May 1907
Streatham, England
Died
1 June 1994
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Geneticist, University Administrator and Microbiologist

Summary

David Catcheside was a geneticist who made significant contributions in plant genetics and cytology, genetic effects of radiation, and the mechanisms of genetic recombination, Much of his research focused on the plants Oenothera and Zea and the insect Drosophila, later extending to the fungal genus Neurospora. After a distinguished career at the University of Cambridge, Catcheside was appointed in 1952 as the foundation Professor of Genetics at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute in Adelaide, where he established Australia's first university department of genetics. He returned to the United Kingdom to become Professor of Microbiology at the University of Birmingham. Here his main intention was to form a research group working in the new field of molecular biology. In 1966, after three years at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Catcheside became the foundation Director of the Research School of Biological Sciences at the Australian National University. In each of these roles he sought to lead research groups which encompassed a variety of specialities working in collaboration. Many of his graduate students went on to careers at senior levels in universities and CSIRO. In retirement Catcheside turned to his long-standing interest in mosses. He bequeathed his bryological collections, with microscope slides, to the State Herbarium of South Australia. The Genetics Society of Australia awards the D. G. Catcheside Prize to recognize the achievements of the top Australasian doctoral student in the field of genetics.

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Chronology

1928
Education - BSc, King's College, University of London
1931 - 1933
Career position - Assistant lecturer, Kings College, University of London
1931 - 1994
Award - Fellow, Linnean Society, London
1933 - 1936
Career position - Lecturer, Kings College, University of London
1935 - 1941
Career position - Secretary, Genetical Society, United Kingdom
1936
Education - DSc, University of London
1936 - 1937
Career position - Rockefeller International Fellow, Biology Division, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, U.S.A.
1937 - 1950
Career position - Lecturer in Cytogenetics, University of Cambridge
1944 - 1951
Career position - Fellow and lecturer, Trinity College Cambridge
1950 - 1951
Career position - Reader in Cytogenetics, University of Cambridge
1951 - 1994
Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
1952 - 1955
Career position - Professor of Genetics, Waite Agricultural Research Institute
1954 - 1994
Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
1956 - 1964
Career position - Professor of Microbiology, University of Birmingham
1958
Career position - President, British Lichen Society
1958 - 1959
Career position - Member of the Executive, British Bryological Society
1959
Award - Elected Fellow, King's College, University of London
1959 - 1961
Career position - Member of Council, Royal Society, London
1961 - 1964
Career position - President, Genetical Society, United Kingdom
1964 - 1966
Career position - Professor of Genetics, John Curtin School of Medical Research
1966 - 1969
Career position - Vice-President, Australian Academy of Science
1966 - 1972
Career position - Director, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University
1972 -
Career position - Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
1972
Life event - Retired
1972 - 1975
Career position - Visiting Fellow, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University
1973
Career position - President, Botany Section, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
1973 - 1974
Career position - President, Genetics Society of Australia
1976 -
Career position - Research Associate, Waite Agricultural Research Institute
1977 - 1994
Award - Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • David Guthrie Catcheside - Records, 1927 - 1975, MS 091; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Catcheside, D. G., Genetics of microorganisms (New York: London: Pitman, 1951), 223 pp. Details
  • Catcheside, D. G., The genetics of recombination (London: Edward Arnold, 1977), 172 pp. Details
  • Catcheside, D. G., Mosses of South Australia (Adelaide: Government Printer, 1980), 364 pp. Details

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • Catcheside, D. G., 'Genetic effects of radiations', Advances in genetics, 2 (1948), 271-358. Details
  • Fincham, J. R. S.; and John, B., 'David Guthrie Catcheside 1907-1994', Historical Records of Australian Science, 10 (4) (1995), 393-407. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9951040393. Details
  • Fincham, John Robert Stanley; and John, B, 'David Guthrie Catcheside, 31 May 1907 - 1 June 1994', Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 41 (1995), 119-34, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1995.0008. Details
  • Stone, Ilma G.; Bell, Graham; and Scott, George A. M., 'Recollections and a tribute to Professor David Guthrie Catcheside, 31 May 1907 - 1 June 1994', Australasian bryological newsletter, 31 (1994), 7-11. https://www.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/766459/ABN_31.pdf. Details
  • Stoneburger, Ann; Wyatt, Robert; Catcheside, David G.; and Stone, Ilma G., 'Census of the mosses of Western Australia', Bryologist, 96 (1) (1993), 86-101. Details

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