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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2012-04-17 human Ailie Smith updated 2025-10-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005047b.htm person Dalitz Richard Henry FRS AACR2 28 February 1925 13 January 2006 Place of Birth Dimboola, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Oxford, United Kingdom Physicist Richard Dalitz completed undergraduate studies in mathematics and physics at the University of Melbourne before undertaking a PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. Dalitz spent most of his career in the UK, with ten years spent at the University of Chicago, USA. Several discoveries in high energy physics are named after him, including the Dalitz pair, the Dalitz plot, and Castillejo-Dalitz-Dyson poles. He was elected as a corresponding member of the Australian Academy of Science in 1978, and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Melbourne in 1991. 1945 1945 Education - Bachelor of Arts with honours (BA(Hons)) in mathematics, University of Melbourne 1946 1946 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) physics, University of Melbourne c. 1946 c. 1953 Career position - Research fellow, lecturer and reader in the Mathematical Physics Department, University of Birmingham, UK 1950 1950 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in theoretical physics, University of Cambridge, UK c. 1953 c. 1963 Career position - Professor of Physics at the Enrico Fermi Institute of Nuclear Studies, University of Chicago, USA 1960 1960 Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS) 1963 1990 Career position - Royal Society Research Professor, University of Oxford, UK 1964 1990 Career position - Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK 1978 1978 Award - Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science 1990 2006 Career position - Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford, UK 1990 2006 Career position - Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK 1991 1991 Award - Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Science 1991 1991 Award - Doctor of Science (DSc), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

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 'Dalitz, Richard Henry', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Dalitz, Richard Henry Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource: Honorary degree holders University of Melbourne Honorary degree holders University of Melbourne 2023 Journal Article: Obituar[y]: Richard Dalitz Obituar[y]: Richard Dalitz 2006 Newsletter, Australian Academy of Science 64 December 2005-March 2006 10 Journal Article: The probability amplitude equation of quantum entanglement: the Australian connection Duarte, F. J. The probability amplitude equation of quantum entanglement: the Australian connection 2013 Australian physics 50 1 12-4 Richard Henry Dalitz - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Richard Henry Dalitz - Records MS 041 1948 - 2006 Correspondence. 1 file