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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. and Helen Cohn updated 2026-02-02 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000927b.htm person Cherry Thomas AACR2 27 October 1861 27 May 1945 Place of Birth Gisborne, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Bacteriologist Agricultural scientist Thomas Cherry was a bacteriologist who, after working in the family joinery business for several years, studied medicine at the University of Melbourne. He travelled to the United Kingdom and Europe in1892 and 1984 to further his studies in bacteriology. On returning to Melbourne, he initiated a service for the bacteriological diagnosis for tuberculosis, diphtheria and typhoid. Appointed to the University of Melbourne to teach pathology, he also undertook work for the Victorian Department of Agriculture, particularly related to water quality, liver fluke in sheep and the training of butter factory managers. Between 1905 and 1910 Cherry was Director of the Department, a productive period during which he studied silo construction, pasture improvement, water purification and bee-keeping. However, the Department was structured such that he had no effective authority over the staff and his term ended in controversy. His next appointment, as Professor of Agriculture at the University, ended when his tenure expired and the Government withdrew funding. After service in the Australian Army Medical Corps, Cherry joined the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research as Cancer Research Fellow and later the University's Veterinary Research Institute. From 1934 his research was sponsored by the Cancer Causation Research Committee.

Portrait by Aileen Dent presented to the University of Melbourne 1944.

1877 1884 Career position - Worked in his father's joinery workshop 1889 1889 Education - MB, University of Melbourne 1890 1890 Career position - Senior house surgeon, Melbourne Hospital 1891 1891 Education - Studied pathology and bacteriology, Kings College, London and University of Aberdeen, Scotland 1892 1892 Education - MD, University of Melbourne 1892 1893 Career position - Assistant lecturer and demonstrator in pathology, University of Melbourne 1894 1894 Education - Studied bacteriology in Europe and the United Kingdom 1894 1894 Education - MS, University of Melbourne 1895 1899 Career position - Provided bacteriological diagnostic service for doctors and hospitals in Melbourne 1900 1905 Career position - Lecturer in bacteriology, University of Melbourne 1901 1902 Career position - Acting registrar, University of Melbourne 1905 1910 Career position - Director, Victorian Department of Agriculture 1907 1907 Career position - President, Section G2 (Agriculture), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1911 1916 Career position - Professor of Agriculture, University of Melbourne 1914 1914 Career position - Local Secretary for Melbourne, Section M (Agriculture), British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting 1916 1918? Military service - Served with the Australian Army Medical Corps 1921 1929 Career position - John Grice Cancer Research Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Hill, Florence Elizabeth McCoy (1876 - 1938) Cherry, Thomas Macfarland (1898 - 1966)

Thomas M. was Thomas's son

 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1888 - 1930)

President, Section G2 (Agriculture) 1907

 The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (1915 - )

John Grice Cancer Research Fellow 1921 1929

 The University of Melbourne (1853 - )

Professor of Agriculture 1911 - 1916

 Victorian Department of Agriculture, Colony and State of Victoria (1872 - 1985)

Director of Agriculture 1905 - 1910

 British Association for the Advancement of Science 84th Meeting (1914)

Local Secretary for Melbourne, Section M (Agriculture) 1914

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 Cherry, Thomas (1861-1945)

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 'Cherry, Thomas', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Cherry, Thomas Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Cherry, Thomas (1861-1945), bacteriologist and agricultural scientist Stowell, Jill Cherry, Thomas (1861-1945), bacteriologist and agricultural scientist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1979 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 633-634 Journal Article: Obituary: Dr. Thomas Cherry Obituary: Dr. Thomas Cherry 1945 Australian Journal of Science 8 2-3 68 Journal Article: Thomas Cherry Macdonald, Colin Thomas Cherry 1945 Medical Journal of Australia 1945 2 129-31 Book: The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 Currie, George; Graham, John The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 Melbourne CSIRO 1966 Edited Book: History of Microbiology in Australia Fenner, Frank History of Microbiology in Australia Melbourne Australian Society for Microbiology 1990 Journal Article: Leslie Harold Martin 1900-1983 Caro, D. E.; Martin, R. L. Leslie Harold Martin 1900-1983 1987 Historical Records of Australian Science 7 1 97-107 Thomas Cherry - Records Private hands (Stowell, J.) Thomas Cherry - Records 1861 - 1945 Family records c1861-1945. Thomas Cherry - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Thomas Cherry - Records MS 041 1937 'Halford and the Ape-Man Theory', The Halford Oration delivered in 1937 (photocopied unpublished typescript) [36 pages, MS 41]. 36 pages