Kerr, Allen (1926 - )

Chronology

1947	Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc (Hons)) completed at the University of Edinburgh
1947 - 1951	Assistant Mycologist at the North of Scotland College of Agriculture
1951 - 1958	Lecturer in Plant Pathology at the University of Adelaide
1956	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Adelaide
1959 - 1967	Senior Lecturer in Plant Pathology at the University of Adelaide
1963 - 1966	Head of the Departments of Plant Pathology and Nematology at the Tea Research Institute in Ceylon (secondment)
1968 - 1980	Reader in Plant Pathology at the University of Adelaide
1978 -	Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1978	Walter Buffitt Prize received from the Royal Society of New South Wales
1978 - 1983	Vice-President of the International Society for Plant Pathology
1980 - 1983	President of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society
1980 - 1989	Personal Chair in Plant Pathology at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute of the University of Adelaide
1982	Ruth Allen Award received from the American Phytopathological Society
1986 -	Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
1990	Inaugural Australia Prize received
1990	Head of the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Adelaide
1991 -	Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences
1991	Retired
1991	Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences
1991	Head of the Department of Crop Protection at the University of Adelaide
1991	Elvin Charles Stackman Award received from the University of Minnesota
1992	Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
1995 -	Fellow of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society
1995	Inaugural presentation of the Allen Kerr Post-graduate Prize of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society in Christchurch, New Zealand
1996 -	Fellow of the American Phytopathological Society
2001 -	Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology