Person
Ride, William David Lindsay (1926 - 2011)
AM FTSE
- Born
- 8 May 1926
St.Pancras, London, England - Died
- 6 November 2011
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Occupation
- Palaeontologist and Zoologist
Summary
William Ride was appointed Principal of the Canberra College of Advanced Education in 1987. Earlier he was head of the School of Applied Science 1982-1987, was with the CSIRO 1974-1980 and has had a long involvement with museums in Australia.
Details
Chronology
- 1957 - 1974
- Career position - Director, Western Australian Museum, Perth
- 1964
- Career event - Published "The fauna of Western Australia" with Dominic Louis Serventy
- 1970
- Career event - Published "A guide to the native mammals of Australia" with Ella Fry
- 1973 - 1977
- Career position - Chairman, Editorial committee, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature [3rd Edition 1985]
- 1974 - 1980
- Career position - Director, Australian Biological Resources Study, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Canberra
- 1982 - 1987
- Career position - Head of the School of Applied Science, Canberra College of Advanced Education
- 1983 - 1984
- Career position - Chairman, Editorial committee, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature [3rd Edition 1985]
- 1984
- Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - For service to science and education, particularly in the fields of zoology and biology
- 1984 - 1987
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
- 1985
- Career event - 'International Code of Zoological Nomenclature' 3rd edition, published and adopted
- 1987 -
- Career position - Principal, Canberra College of Advanced Education
- 1987
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Awarded by AATS 1984]
- 2001
- Award - Centenary Medal - For service to Australian society in palaeontology
Related entries
Archival resources
Western Australian Museum
- William David Lindsay Ride - Records, 1957; Western Australian Museum. Details
Published resources
Books
- Ride, William David Lindsay; Fry, Ella, A guide to the native mammals of Australia (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1970), xiv, 249 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Johnstone, R. E., 'A history of ornithology at the Western Australian Museum' in Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology, Davis, William E.; Recher, Harry E.; Boles, Walter E.; and Jackson, Jerome A., eds (Cambridge, Mass.: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 2008), pp. 165-98. Details
Resources
- 'Ride, W D L (1926-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-462169. Details
McCarthy, G.J.; Ken McInnes
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