P006037 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2018-04-24 human Elizabeth Daniels updated 2026-01-15 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006037b.htm corporateBody Macquarie University AACR2 1964 Start Place New South Wales, Australia Education University Macquarie University was founded in 1964 and is named in honour of Governor Lachlan Macquarie. Astronomy Australia Limited (2007 - ) Sydney Institute of Marine Science (2005 - )

Founding Member

 Ward, John Clive (1924 - 2000)

Foundation Professor of Physics 1966 - 1984

 Green, Anne Josephine

Member, Advisory Board, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astrophotonics Research Centre 2011 - 2014

 Universities Australia (2007 - ) Leishman, Michelle

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences 2014 -

 Voisey, Alan Heywood (1911 - 1995)

Professor of Geology and Head of the School of Earth Sciences 1966 - 1971

 O'Reilly, Suzanne Yvette (1946 - )

Professor of Geology (Personal Chair) 1991 -

 Day, Brian John (1945 - 2012)

Senior Research Assistant (later Honorary Associate in Mathematics) 1981 - 2011

 Henderson-Sellers, Ann (1952 - )

Director of the Climatic Impacts Centre and Professor of Physical Geography at the School of Earth Sciences 1993 - 1996

 Nichol, Lawrence Walter (1935 - 2015)

Vice-Chancellor 1985 - 1988

 Dowling, Robyn M. (1965 - )

Professor 2011 - 2016; Head, Department of Geography and Planning 2015 - 2016

 Serventy, Vincent Noel (1916 - 2007)

Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Macquarie University, 1998

 Veevers, John James (1930 - 2018)

Professor (personal chair) 1991 - 1998

 Mason, Peter (1922 - 1987)

Foundation Professor of Physics 1966 - 1986; Member of Council 1974 - 1977 and 1980 - 1986

 Sharman, Geoffrey Bruce (1925 - 2015)

Foundation Professor of Biological Sciences 1970 - 1985, and Emeritus Professor from 1985.

 Foote, Simon James (1958 - )

Dean, Australian School of Advanced Medicine 2012 - 2014

 Moyal Medal, Macquarie University (2000 - )

The Medal has been awarded by the Department of Mathematics since 2000

 Dancer, Edward Norman (Norman) (1946 - )

Professor of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science 1987 - 1993

 Flannery, Timothy Fridjof

Professor, Division of Environmental and Life Sciences 2007 - 2013

 Piper, James Austin (Jim) (1947 - 2023)

Professor of Physics 1984 - 2013; Dean, Division of Information and Communication 1998 - 2002; Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) 2003 - 2013

 Talbot, Frank Hamilton (1930 - 2024)

Foundation Professor of Environmental Studies 1975 - 1982

 Van der Poorten, Alfred Jacobus (Alf) (1942 - 2010)

Professor of Mathematics -2002; Head, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics 1979 - 1996; Member of Council 1990 - 2001; Director, Centre for Number Theory Research 1991 - 2002; Member of Council 1990 - 2001

 Street, Ross Howard (1945 - )

Professor (personal chair) 1990 - 2007 ; Director, Centre of Australian Category Theory 1999 -

 Makinson, Richard Elliss Bodenham (1913 - 1979) 1968 1978

Richard Makinson was Associate Professor of Physics, Macquarie University 1968-1978.

 Moyal, Jose Enrique (1910 - 1998) 1972 1977

Jose Moyal was a Professor of Mathematics at Macquarie University from 1972 until 1977

 'Macquarie University', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Macquarie University Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: History History Macquarie University Macquarie University Book: Liberality of opportunity: a History of Macquarie University 1964 - 1989 Mansfield, Bruce and Hutchinson, Mark Liberality of opportunity: a History of Macquarie University 1964 - 1989 Sydney, New South Wales Macquarie University and Hale and Iremonger 1992