Person
Moore, Barry Philip (1925 - 2015)
- Born
- 2 May 1925
United Kingdom - Died
- 21 November 2015
Bermagui, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Chemist and Entomologist
Summary
Barry Moore was an entomologist and chemist whose early research was concerned with chemistry as it related to insect reproduction and pest control. His appointment in 1961 to CSIRO Division of Entomology in Canberra was to investigate chemicals such as attractants, pheromones and defence secretions, and allowed him to combine his chemical and entomological expertise. He was a keen amateur entomologist in his youth and this interest continued when he came to Australia. His main interest was in carabid beetles and he published extensively on the taxonomy of the carabid fauna of Australia, New Zealand and nearby Pacific islands. Many of his publications included his skilful scraperboard illustrations. Most of Moore's collections were deposited in the Australian National Insect Collection: Australian Carabidae shortly after his retirement; Odonata in 1993; the remainder of his non-carabid collections (>12,000 specimens) in 2018. The carabid genus Barrymooreana was named in his honour.
Details
Chronology
- 1945
- Education - BSc, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
- 1947
- Education - PhD, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
- 1950
- Career position - Postdoctoral Fellow, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- 1950
- Education - DPhil, University of Oxford
- 1951 - 1958
- Career position - Research scientist, Pest Infestation Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, United Kingdom
- 1957 - 1958
- Career position - President, South London Entomological and Natural History Society
- 1958
- Life event - Migrated to Australia
- 1958 - 1961
- Career position - Research scientist, Chemical Research Laboratories, CSIRO Division of Industrial Chemistry, Melbourne
- 1961 - 1985
- Career position - Head, Division of Physiology and Toxicology, CSIRO Division of Entomology
- 1962 - 1974
- Career position - Vice-President, Australian Entomological Society
- 1973 - 1974
- Career position - Chairman, National Executive, Australian Entomological Society
- 1975 - 1982
- Career position - Editor, Journal of the Australian Entomological Society journal
- 1985
- Life event - Retired
- 1985 - 2015?
- Career position - Honorary Fellow, CSIRO Division of Entomology
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Moore, B. P., Life on forty acres: some experiences of a naturalist living in the Australian bush (Farringdon, U.K.: Classey, 1978), 184 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Moore, B. P., 'The contributions of Philip J. Darlington Jr to Australian carabidology: an appreciation' in Taxonomy, phylogeny and zoogeography of beetles and ants, Ball, G. E., ed. (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Junk, 1985), pp. 131-2. Details
Journal Articles
- Longstaff, B., 'Retirement of Barry Moore', News bulletin of the Entomological Society of Queensland, 21 (4) (1985), 131-2. Details
- Monteith, G. B., 'Barry Philip Moore, 1925 - 2015, coleopterist, chemist and natural historian', Australian Entomologist, 45 (4) (2018), 325-52. Details
- Monteith, Geoff, 'Obituary: Barry Philip Moore 2 May 1925 - 21 November 2015', Entomological Society of Queensland News Bulletin, 44 (2) (2016), 39. Details
- Monteith, Geoff, 'Barry Philip Moore 2 May 1925 - 21 November 2015', Myrmecia: News Bulletin of the Australian Entomological Society, 52 (1) (2016), 2-3. Details
- Rothschild, G., 'Obituary: Barry Philip Moore 1925 - 2015', Antenna, 40 (3) (2016), 140-1. Details
See also
- Upton, M. S., A Rich and Diverse Fauna: the history of the Australian National Insect Collection 1926 - 1991 (Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 1997), 386 pp. Details
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Created: 28 May 2019, Last modified: 21 August 2019