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Murray, Patrick Desmond Fitzgerald (1900 - 1967)

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Zoologist
Born: 18 June 1900  Dorchester, Dorset, England.  Died: 17 May 1967  at sea.
Patrick Desmond F. Murray was appointed Challis professor of zoology at the University of Sydney in 1949 and resigned in 1960. He then took up a readership in zoology (later, research fellow) at the University of New England where he specialized in experimental embryology. Prior to these two posts Murray worked overseas at many prestigious institutes including the Strangeways Research Laboratory at the University of Cambridge (UK); the University of Freiburg (Germany); Bedford College for Women, University of London; and at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1914Entered St Ignatius' College in Riverview, New South Wales
1922Matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, UK
1922Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Sydney
1924Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Oxford
1924 - 1929Macleay Fellow of the Linnean Society of New South Wales and Lecturer and Demonstrator in Zoology at the University of Sydney
1926Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Sydney
1929 - c. 1930Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the universities of Cambridge (UK) and Freiburg (Germany)
1931 - 1935Smithson Fellow of Natural Sciences at the Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge
1936Bones: A Study of the Development and Structure of the Vertebrate Skeleton published
c. 1936 - c. 1939Demonstrator in Zoology at Bedford College for Women, University of London
1939 - 1949Reader in Biology and Comparative Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, UK
1949 - 1960Challis Professor of Zoology at the University of Sydney
1954 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1960 - Reader, later Research Fellow in Zoology at the University of New England in New South Wales

 

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