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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn updated 2026-01-15 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000832b.htm person Tiegs Oscar Werner FAA FRS AACR2 12 March 1897 5 November 1956 Place of Birth Kangaroo Point, Queensland, Australia Place of Death Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia Zoologist University Administrator 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 Founding Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) in 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. 1919 1919 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc(Hons)), University of Queensland 1920 1921 Award - Walter and Eliza Hall Fellowship in Economic Botany 1921 1921 Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Queensland 1922 1922 Career event - Elected Associate Member (Zoology), Australian National Research Council 1922 1922 Career position - Acting Chair, Department of Zoology, University of Adelaide 1925 1931 Career position - Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne 1928 1928 Award - David Syme Research Prize, University of Melbourne 1928 1928 Award - Rockefeller Travelling Fellowship 1931 1948 Career position - Associate Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne 1933 1933 Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne 1944 1944 Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS) 1948 1956 Career position - Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne 1949 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 1951 Career position - Head of Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne 1953 1953 Career event - Petitioner for the Australian Academy of Science 1954 1956 Award - Founding Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA) 1956 1956 Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne (1903 - )

Dean Faculty of Science 1950 - 1952

 Australian Academy of Science (1954 - )

Petitioner for the Academy 1953, Founding Fellow 1954 - 1956

 Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) (1930 - )

President, Section D (Zoology) 1949

 Queensland Museum

The Museum holds c.1,000 of Tiegs's beetle specimens

 Department of Zoology, The University of Melbourne

Professor of Zoology 1948 - 1956

 David Syme Research Prize, The University of Melbourne (1904 - )

Awarded the Prize 1928

 Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales (1878 - )

Awarded the Medal 1956

 Australian National Research Council (ANRC) (1919 - 1955)

Associate Member (Zoology) 1922 -

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 Tiegs, Oscar Werner (1897-1956)

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 'Tiegs, Oscar Werner', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Tiegs, Oscar Werner Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Tiegs, Oscar Werner (1897-1956), professor of zoology Rasmussen, Carolyn Tiegs, Oscar Werner (1897-1956), professor of zoology Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2002 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z John Ritchie and Diane Langmore 393-394 Resource Section: Tiegs, Oscar Werner - Ms 76 Tiegs, Oscar Werner - Ms 76 Australian Academy of Science 1994 Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings Journal Article: Obituary: Oscar Werner Tiegs Drummond, F. H. Obituary: Oscar Werner Tiegs 1957 Australian Journal of Science 19 4 151-152 Journal Article: Section D - Zoology. The problem of the origin of insects Australia [presidential address] Tiegs, O. W. Section D - Zoology. The problem of the origin of insects Australia [presidential address] 1949 Report of the 27th meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 47-56 Journal Article: Wilfred Eade Agar 1882-1951 Tiegs, Oscar Werner Wilfred Eade Agar 1882-1951 1952 Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 8 21 3-11 Journal Article: Obituary: Wilfred Eade Agar Tiegs, O. W. Obituary: Wilfred Eade Agar 1951 Australian Journal of Science 14 2 49 Journal Article: Oscar Werner Tiegs 1897 - 1956 Pantin, C. F. A. Oscar Werner Tiegs 1897 - 1956 1957 Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 3 247-55 Journal Article: Cabinets of Curiosities, Mystery Specimens and a Giant Bird: a History of the Tiegs Museum, 1887-1959 Coultas, Anna Cabinets of Curiosities, Mystery Specimens and a Giant Bird: a History of the Tiegs Museum, 1887-1959 2010 University of Melbourne Collections 7 35-42 Resource: Science and the making of Victoria Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Science and the making of Victoria 2001 Oscar Werner Tiegs - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Oscar Werner Tiegs - Records MS 076 1918 - 1959 Correspondence, personal records and biographical material 1918-59; 11 plates of original drawings for 'The development and affinities of the Pauropoda based on a study of Pauropus silvaticus' and 5 plates of original illustrations for 'The Embryonic Development of Calandra oryzae' by Tiegs and F. Murray both published in the "Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science" Vol. 88, 1947 and Vol. 80, 1938 respectively [19 cm, MS 76]. 0.19 m, 3 boxes Artwork