Derrick, Edward Holbrook (1898 - 1976)

Summary

Edward Derrick was Director of the Research Bureau, Asthma Foundation of Queensland from 1966 after being Director, Queensland Institute of Medical Research 1961-1966 and Deputy Director from its inception in 1947. He was a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) from 1955 to 1976. In his research Derrick focused on the epidemiology of diseases such as Q fever, dengue fever, scrub typhus, and asthma in children in Brisbane. He investigated principally causative agents, vectors especially viruses and arthropods, and the impact of climatic factors.

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Chronology

? - 1973

Career position - Director, Research Bureau, Queensland Asthma Foundation

1920

Education - MB BS, University of Melbourne

1922 - 1923

Career position - Pathology Assistant, Pathological Institute, London Hospital

1923

Education - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, United Kingdom

1924

Life event - Registered with the Queensland Medical Board

1924 - 1935

Career position - In private practice in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland

1935 - 1947

Career position - Director, Laboratory of Microbiology and Pathology, Queensland Department of Health

1939

Award - Cilento Medal (joint), Australian Institute of Anatomy

1939 - 1965

Career position - Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland

1940 - 1976

Award - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

1947 - 1961

Career position - Deputy Director, Queensland Institute of Medical Research

1947 - 1976

Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians

1948

Award - Bancroft Orator, Queensland Branch, British Medical Association

1955 - 1976

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science

1956 - 1976

Award - Foundation Member (later Fellow), Royal College of Pathologists of Australia

1961

Award - Commander of the British Empire (CBE)

1961 - 1966

Career position - Director, Queensland Institute of Medical Research

1962

Award - Elkington Orator, Queensland Society of Health

1966 -

Career position - Honorary Research Fellow, Queensland Institute of Medical Research

1966

Life event - Retired

1966

Award - Doctor of Science (DSc), honoris causa, University of Queensland

1966

Career position - Member, International Society of Biometrology

1967 - 1976

Award - Fellow, Australian Society of Allergists

1968 - 1976

Award - Fellow, Australian Medical Association

1969

Award - ANZAAS Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

1975 - 1976

Award - Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, United Kingdom

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Edward Holbrook Derrick - Records, 1909 - 1976, MS 105; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
• Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Research in Pathology and Medicine, c. 1936 - c. 1940, MS 052; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

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

Book Sections

• Doherty, R. L., 'Derrick, Edward Holbrook (1898-1976), Medical Practitioner' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 13 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), pp. 620-621. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130693b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Obituary: Edwrd Holbrook Derrick', Pathology, 9 (3) (1977), 270-271. Details
• Burnet, F. M., 'Derrick and the story of Q fever', Medical Journal of Australia, 1967 (2) (1967), 1067-8. Details
• Cooke, Robin, 'Q Fever: was Edward Derrick's Contribution Undervalued?', Medical Journal of Australia, 18 (2008), 660-662 . Details
• Derrick, E. H., 'A Mystery Fever Invades Brisbane', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 2 (3) (1972), 39-51. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9720230039.htm. Details
• Derrick, E. H., 'The birth of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research', Medical Journal of Australia, 1972, v.2 (21 October) (1972), 952-9. Details
• Doherty, R. L., 'E. H. Derrick - his published record and its background', Medical Journal of Australia, 1967 (2) (1967), 1069. Details
• Doherty, R. L.; and Tonge, J. I., 'Edward Holbrook Derrick', Medical Journal of Australia, 1976 (2) (1976), 731-2. Details
• Doherty, Ralph L., 'The Bancroft tradition in infectious desease research in Queensland, part 2', Medical Journal of Australia, 2 (1978), 591-4. Details
• Doherty, Ralph L., 'The Bancroft tradition in infectious desease research in Queensland, part 1', Medical Journal of Australia, 1978, v.2 (2 December) (1978), 560-3. Details
• Mackerras, I. M., 'Edward Holbrook Derrick', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 4 (1) (1979), 82-102. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9790410082.htm. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5343482. Details
• 'Derrick, Edward Holbrook (1898-1976)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1470875. Details
• 'Awarded honorary DSc, 1966 [Citation provided]', Honorary awards recipients, University of Queensland, 2023, https://alumni.uq.edu.au/awards/honorary-awards-previous-recipients. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Derrick, Edward Holbrook - Ms 105', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms105.html. Details
• Mackerras, I. M., 'Edward Holbrook Derrick 1898-1976', in Australian Academy of Science Biographical Memoirs, Australian Academy of Science, 2006, https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/biographical-memoirs/edward-holbrook-derrick-1898-1976. Details

See also

• Fenner, Frank ed., History of Microbiology in Australia (Melbourne: Australian Society for Microbiology, 1990), 624 pp. Details