Tiegs, Oscar Werner (1897 - 1956)

Summary

Oscar Tiegs was Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne 1948-1956. He had earlier been an Associate Professor and Lecturer at Melbourne. Tiegs was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1944 and was a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA, 1954). His areas of research ranged from the study of helminths and arthropod musculature to invertebrate embryology. In the phylogenetics of arthropods his major contribution was to divide the phylum into two parts: insects, myriapods and velvet worms; and trilobites, crustaceae and arachnids. Tiegs considerably improved the University of Melbourne's zoological museum, now known as the Tiegs Museum. His childhood collection of c.1,000 beetles ultimately went to Queensland Museum.

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Chronology

1919

Education - BSc (hons), University of Queensland

1920 - 1921

Award - Walter and Eliza Hall Fellowship in Economic Botany

1921

Education - MSc, University of Queensland

1922

Career position - Acting Chair, Department of Zoology, University of Adelaide

1925 - 1931

Career position - Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne

1928

Award - Rockefeller Travelling Fellowship

1928

Award - David Syme Research Prize, University of Melbourne

1931 - 1948

Career position - Associate Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne

1933

Education - MSc, University of Melbourne

1944

Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)

1948 - 1956

Career position - Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne

1949

Career position - President, Section D Zoology, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

1950 - 1952

Career position - Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

1951

Career position - Head of Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne

1954

Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1956

Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Oscar Werner Tiegs - Records, 1918 - 1959, MS 076; 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

• Rasmussen, Carolyn, 'Tiegs, Oscar Werner (1897-1956), Professor of Zoology' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds, vol. 16 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 393-394. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160475b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Coultas, Anna, 'Cabinets of Curiosities, Mystery Specimens and a Giant Bird: a History of the Tiegs Museum, 1887-1959', University of Melbourne Collections, 7 (2010), 35-42. Details
• Drummond, F. H., 'Obituary: Oscar Werner Tiegs', Australian Journal of Science, 19 (4) (1957), 151-152. Details
• Pantin, C. F. A., 'Oscar Werner Tiegs 1897 - 1956', Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 3 (1957), 247-55. https://doi,org/10.1098/rsbm.1957.0017. Details
• Tiegs, O. W., 'Obituary: Wilfred Eade Agar', Australian Journal of Science, 14 (2) (1951), 49. Details

Resources

• Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Royal Society of London, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1957.0017. Details
• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7106312. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/233341042. Details
• 'Tiegs, Oscar Werner (1897-1956)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1468025. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Tiegs, Oscar Werner - Ms 76', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms076.html. Details

See also

• Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_t.html. Details