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Former Officers of the University of Adelaide

Doctors of the University
Chancellors
Deputy Chancellors
Vice-Chancellors
Deputy Vice-Chancellors
Directors of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute
Pro Vice-Chancellors
Wardens of the Senate
Treasurers
Chairmen of the Finance Committee
Chairmen of the Education Committee
Convenors of the Academic Board

Adult Education (Directors)
Registrars
Academic Registrars
Executive Director, Finance and Infrastucture
Executive Director, Student and Staff Services
Deans of Graduate Studies
Librarians
Bursars
Professors

Doctors of the University (honoris causa)

2004

Arthur Ray Beckwith, RDA (Hons), DUniv (hc) (Adel), for a contribution of the highest order to the  development of the Australian wine industry.

John Stuart Dowie, AM, DUniv (hc) (Adel), for his contributions to the spiritual and artistic life of the city, South Australia and the nation.

2005
Roger James Thomas, for his creative and original distinguished contributions in the service of society.

John Maxwell Coetzee BA, MA (Cape Town), PhD(Texas), D Litt (hon causa)(Oxford), FRSL, FAHA, for his contributions to literature

2006
Emeritus Professor John Robin Warren AC, MBBS (Adel), FRCPA for his distinguished achievement as a scholar and for his creative contribution to society in the area of physiology and medicine.

Andrew Sydney Withiel Thomas AO, BEng (Hons), PhD (Adel), for his distinguished contribution as a research scientist engaged in experimental and computational studies in fluid mechanics.

Elliott Frank Johnston AO, QC, LLB (Adel), Hon LLD (Flinders) for his distinguished achievement as a scholar and for his creative contributions to the pursuit of justice and equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Edward James McAlister AO, BSc (UNE), JP, for his distinguished achievement as a scholar, and his contribution to animal conservation, the environment and the community.

2007
Professor Frank John Fenner AC, CMG, MBE, FRS, FAA, for his achievement as a scholar and for his contributions to the pursuit of the eradication of smallpox and the control of Australia's rabbit plague.

Hijjas bin Kasturi, BArch, DipT&RP (Melb), APAM, ARIBA, FRAIA, MAPI, for distinguished achievement as a scholar and for creative contributions to the design and construction of iconic buildings throughout the world.

2008
The Hon Justice John Jeremy Doyle AC QC, LLB (Hons) for distinguished creative contribution in the serivce of society.

His Excellency, Hieu Van Le, BEc, MBA, for distinguished contribution in the service of society.

2009
Mr Lim Kee Ming, for his distinguished service to education and service to the community.

2010
The Hon Gregory John Crafter AO, LL.B, for distinguished creative contributions in the service of society.

Dr Barbara Rosemary Hardy AO, B.Sc. Ph.D (Flinders), for distinguished creative contributions in the service of society.

Mr Malcolm Alexander Kinnaird AC, B. Eng., for distinguished creative contributions in the service of society.

The Hon Edward Picton (Ted) Mullighan QC, LL.B, for distinguished creative contributions in the service of society.

Hugh Reskymer (Kym) Bonython, for his distinguished creative contributions in the service of society.

Peter Malcolm Colman B.Sc., Ph.D (Adel), for service to society.

Brian Wesley Matthews B.Sc., Ph.D. (Adel), D.Sc. (Adel), for service to society.

2012
Michael Philip Alpers, BSc (Adel), BA (Cam) MBBS (Adel) MA (Camb), for distinguished creative contributions in the service of Society.


Doctors of the University

1979
Brian Robinson Elliott, AM, MA, DLitt, FAHA.
Ronald Robert Hirst, MEc.
James Melville, CMG, MS, PhD.
George Sved, DipMechEng.

1980
Professor Sir Geoffrey Malcolm Badger, AO, MSc, PhD, DSc, FAA.
Victor Allen Edgeloe, AM, BA, Registrar Emeritus.
Henry Elliot Wesley Smith, BEd, DipEd, BA.

1982
Annie Winifred Wall, AM, MB, BS.

1983
John Jefferson Bray, AC, LLD.
Samuel Joshua Jacobs, AO, LLB.
Howard Edgar Zelling, AO,CBE, LLB.
Mervyn Keith Smith, AO,CBE, MB, BS.

1985
Roma Flinders Mitchell, AC, LLB,  DBE, CVO.
George Melrose Elton Mayo, BAgSc, PhD.
Harold James Rodda, MSc, PhD.
Allan Kerr Grant, AO, FRD, ED, MB, BS, MRACP, FRACP, FRCP, FRCPE, FACP, Hon MD, MB, BS.
Bertram Speakman Hanson, OBE, ED, MB, BS.
Donald Allen Simpson, AM, MD, DipAppHist, MS, FRCS, FRACS.

1986
Warren MacIntosh Rogers, BEc, LLB.
Douglas Hardy, AM, MB, ChB.

1987
Edwin Harry Medlin, BSc, PhD.

1988
Violet Thenie Baddams, AM, BS, DipEd.

1990
Barrie Patrick Marmion, AO, MD, DSc, FRCP (Edin), FRACP, FRCPath (UK), FRACPath, FRS (Edin).

1992
Robert Culver, AM, BSc, BE, FTS, FIEAust.

1994
Gwendoline Fay Gale, AO, BA (Hons), PhD, FASSA, FAIM.
YAB Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Haji Abdul Taib Bin Mahmud, LLB.

1998
William Faulding Scammell, CBE.
Hugh Stretton, MA, FAHA, FASSA, HonDLitt, Hon LLD.

1999
Irvine James Bettison, BA.

2002
John Malcolm Oades, BSc (Hons), PhD, DSc (Leeds).

2004
Robert James Champion de Crespigny, AC, DUniv (Adel), BCom (Melb), FCA, FTSE, FAICD FAusIMM.

2005
John Francis Keeler MA, BCL (Oxford)

2007
Brian John Croser AO, BAgSc (Adel), for his distinguished service to the University Community and the wine industry.

2010
The Hon John William von Doussa AO, QC, for his distinguished service to the University.

2011
Norman Ross Adler AC, B.Com (Melb), MBA (Columbia), for his distinguished service to the University.

2012
Hamish Ramsay, BCE (Melb), for his distinguished service to the University.


Chancellors

Sir Richard Davies Hanson, Chief Justice of South Australia, 1874-1876
The Right Reverend Augustus Short, DD, Bishop of Adelaide, 1876-1883
The Right Honourable Sir Samuel James Way, Bart, PC, DCL, LLD, Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of South Australia, 1883-1916
The Honourable Sir George John Robert Murray, KCMG, BA, LLM, Lieutenant Governor and Chief Justice of South Australia, 1916-1942
Professor Sir William Mitchell, KCMG, DSc, MA, 1942-1948
The Honourable Sir John Mellis Napier, KCMG, LLD, Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of South Australia, 1948-1961
The Honourable Sir George Coutts Ligertwood, LLD, BA, 1961-1966
Sir Kenneth Agnew Wills, KBE, MC, KStJ, ED, 1966-1968
The Honourable John Jefferson Bray, AC, LLD, DUniv (Adel.)1968-1983
The Honourable Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell, AC, DBE, CVO, QC, LLB, DUniv (Adel.) 1983-1990
William Faulding Scammell, AO, CBE, DUniv (Adel.), 1991-1997
Bruce Phillip Webb, AM, FTSE, MSc, FAusIMM, FIEAust., FAICD 1998- 2000
Robert James Champion de Crespigny, AC, DUniv (Adel), BCom (Melb.), FCA, FTSE, FAICD, FAusIMM, June 2000-July 2004
The Honourable John William von Doussa, AO, QC, July 2004 - July 2010

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Deputy Chancellors

The Honourable Sir George Coutts Ligertwood, LLD, BA. Elected 1958; elected Chancellor 1961.
Sir Kenneth Agnew Wills, KBE, MC, KStJ, ED. Elected 1961; elected Chancellor 1966.
The Reverend William Frank Hambly, MA, DD 1968-1971.
The Honourable Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell, AC, DBE, CVO, QC, LLB, DUniv (Adel.). Elected 1972; elected Chancellor 1983.
The Honourable Samuel Joshua Jacobs, AO, QC, LLB, DUniv (Adel.), 1984-1993.
Dr Edwin Harry Medlin BSc (Hons), PhD, DUniv (Adel.), 1978-1983, Senior Deputy Chancellor, 1984-1997. (Emeritus Senior Deputy Chancellor 1997).
Irvine James Bettison, BA, DUniv (Adel.), 1997.
Dr Mervyn Smith, CBE, MB, BS, FRCS, FRACS, FRCSEd, DUniv (Adel.), 1994-1997.
The Honourable Janine Haines, AM, BA, DipT, 1997-1999.
Brian John Croser AO, BAgSc, DUniv (Adel), 1999-2007.
Norman Ross Adler AC, B.Com (Melb), MBA (Columbia), 2007-2009

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Vice-Chancellors

The Right Reverend Augustus Short, DD, Bishop of Adelaide. Appointed 1874; elected Chancellor 1876.
The Right Honourable Sir Samuel James Way, Bart., PC, DCL, LLD, Chief Justice of South Australia. Appointed 1876; elected Chancellor 1883.
The Reverend Professor William Roby Fletcher, MA, 1883-1887.
The Venerable George Henry Farr, MA, LLD, Archdeacon of Mt Gambier and the West, Rector of St Luke's, Adelaide,1887-1893.
John Anderson Hartley, BA, BSc, Inspector-General of Schools, 1893-1896.
William Barlow, CMG, LLD, 1896-1915.
The Honourable Sir George John Robert Murray, KCMG, BA, LM, Judge of the Supreme Court. Appointed 1915; elected Chancellor 1916.
Professor Sir William Mitchell, KCMG, MA. Appointed 1916; elected Chancellor 1942.
The Honourable Sir Herbert Angas Parsons, LLB, Judge of the Supreme Court, 1942-1945.
Professor John McKellar Stewart, CMG, PPhil, Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1943-1945; Vice-Chancellor 1945-1948.
Albert Percival Rowe, CBE, BSc, LLD (Melb), 1948-1958.
Sir Henry Bolton Basten, CMG, MA, DLitt, 1958-1967.
Professor Emeritus Sir Geoffrey Malcolm Badger, AO, Ktcr, PhD, DSc, DUniv (Adel.), FRSC, FRACI, FTSE, FAA, FACE. Appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1966-1967; Vice-Chancellor 1967-1977.
Professor Donald Richard Stranks, AO, MSc, PhD, Vice-Chancellor 1977-1986.
Professor Kevin Marjoribanks, BSc, DipEd (UNSW), BA (UNE), MEd (Harvard) , PhD (Toronto), FASSA, FACE, FSS, Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1986-1987, Vice-Chancellor 1987-1993. (Emeritus Professor 2005)
Professor Gavin Brown, MA, (StAnd.), PhD (N'cle,UK), FAA, 1994-1996. (Emeritus Professor 1996)
Professor Mary Josephine O'Kane, BSc (Qld), PhD (ANU), FTSE, 1997-2001.(Emeritus Professor 2001)
Professor Clifford Douglas Blake, AO, PhD (Lond), BSc (Hons) (Syd), DUniv (Charles Sturt), PhD (ad eundum gradum) (Adel), Hon. DEduc Admin (Syd), (Emeritus Professor, Charles Sturt, 2001), Vice-Chancellor 2001-2002.
Professor James Alexander McWha, AO, BSc, BAgr (Hons) (Belfast), PhD (Glasgow), PhD (aeg) (Adel), DSc (hc )(Massey) Vice-Chancellor 2002-2012. (Emeritus Professor 2012)

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Deputy Vice-Chancellors

Professor John McKellar Stewart, CMG, PPhil, Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1943-1945.
Professor Sir Mark Ledingham Mitchell, MSc, 1951-1965.
Professor Emeritus Sir Geoffrey Malcolm Badger, AO, Ktcr, PhD, DSc, DUniv (Adel.), FRSC, FRACI, FTSE, FAA, FACE, 1966-1967.
Professor John Reginald Trevaskis, MA, Part-time, 1967-1970.
Professor Noel Thomas Flentje, PhD, MSc, 1970-1974.
Professor Eric Stephen Barnes, BA, PhD, FAA, 1975-1980.
Professor Kenneth Alfred Provins, MA, PhD, 1975-1980.
Professor Nigel Douglas McEachern, BA (Hons), MA, PhD, 1997-1998.
Professor Penelope Ann Boumelha MA, DPhil (Oxford), FAHA 2004-2005 (Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) 1999-2004).

Deputy Vice-Chancellors (Research)

Professor Gavin Brown, MA, (StAnd.), PhD (N'cle,UK), FAA, 1992-1993.
Mary Josephine O'Kane, BSc (Qld), PhD (ANU), FTSE, 1994-1995. (Emeritus Professor 2001)
Professor Ieva Kotlarski, BSc, BSc(Hons), PhD, 1996-1997, (Emeritus Professor 1997).
Professor Ross Milbourne, BCom, MCom (Hons), PhD (Calif.), 1997-2000.
Edwina Cecily Cornish, BSc, PhD (Melb), FTSE, FAIM 2000-2003.
Neville Alexander Marsh BSc (Hons), PhD (Lond) GradCertEd (QUT) (2004-2006) (Emeritus Professor 2006)
Professor Alan Murray Johnson AM, BAppSc (SAIT), MEdMgnt, PhD (Flinders); MA (Hons), DSc (Wollongong), 2006-2007

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)

Professor Ian Falconer PhD (Aberd) DSc (Aberd), DSc (Nott.) ThDip (AustCollLTheol), FRSChem, FAIBiol 1992-1997

Deputy Vice-Chancellor and President (Academic)

Professor Fred Malcolm McDougall BCom (Hons), MCom, Dip Ed (Melb), PhD (Adel), FCPA  2006-2011 (Emeritus Professor 2011)

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education)

Professor Penelope Ann Boumelha MA, DPhil, (Oxford), FAHA 1999-2004 (Deputy Vice-Chancellor 2004)

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Directors of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute

Professor Arnold Edwin Victor Richardson, DSc (Melb.), MA, 1924-1938
Professor James Arthur Prescott, CBE, DSc, FRAI, FRS, FAA, 1938-1955
Dr James Melville, CMG, MSc (NZ), PhD (Lond.), DUniv (Adel.), 1956-1973, (Emeritus Professor 1974)
Professor James Patrick Quirk, AO, BScAgr (Syd.), PhD, DSc (Lond.)
Hon. DAgrSc (Louvain), FAIAS, FRACI, FANZAAS, FTS, FAA, 1974-1989, (Emeritus Professor 1990)
Professor Harold William Woolhouse, BSc (Hons) (Reading), PhD, Hon. DSc (East Anglia) 1990-1996.
Professor John Malcolm Oades, AM, BSc (Hons), PhD (Leeds), DUniv (Adel), DSc (Leeds) 1996-2001,(Emeritus Professor 2002)

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Pro Vice-Chancellors

Professor Kevin Marjoribanks, BSc, DipEd (UNSW), BA (UNE), MEd (Harvard) , PhD (Toronto), FASSA, FACE, FSS,, 1986-1987.
Professor Charles Angas Hurst, BA (Hons), BSc (Melb.), PhD (Camb.), FAA, 1986-1988.
Professor Gwendoline Fay Gale, AO, BA(Hons), PhD, DUniv (Adel.), FASSA, FAIM, 1988-1989.
Professor John Hamilton Bowie, BSc (Hons) (Melb),MSc (Melb.), PhD (Nott.), DSc (Adel.), FRACI, 1989-1991.
Professor Barrie Vernon-Roberts, MDBS, PhD (Lond.), FRACP, FRCPA, FAOrthA (Hon),
FRS.SA,1990.

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Commercialisation)

Professor Malcolm George William Gillies BA (ANU), MA (Camb), MMus PhD (Lond), DepEd (Qld), LMusA, LTCL, FLCM, FAHA 2001

Pro Vice-Chancellor (International)

Professor Ian Robert Young BE (Hons), MEngSc, PhD (James Cook), FIEAust, FTSE 2001-2003.
Professor John Eaton Taplin BSc (Hons), PhD (Adel), FAPS, 2004-2012 (Emeritus Professor 2012).

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Quality)

Professor Brigit Lohmann, BSc (Hons) (Adel.), PhD (Flinders), 2007-2011.

Wardens of the Senate

William Gosse, MD, 1877-1880.
The Venerable George Henry Farr, MA, LLD, Archdeacon of Mt Gambier and theWest, Rector of St Luke's, Adelaide,1887-1893.
Frederick Chapple, BA, 1883-1922.
The Honourable Mr Justice Thomas Slaney Poole, MA, 1922-1927.
The Honourable Sir Herbert Angas Parsons, LLB, 1927-1945.
The Honourable Sir George Coutts Ligertwood, LLD, BA, 1945-1959.
Albert James Hannan, CMG, QC, MA, LLB, 1960.
Roger George Willoughby, DDS (Northwestern), MDS, 1960-1968.
Warren McIntosh Rogers RFD, BEc, LLB, DUniv (Adel), 1968-2004.

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Treasurers

The Honourable Sir Henry Ayres, GCMG, 1874-1886.
A Finance Committee was established in 1880.

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Chair of the Finance Committee

The Chancellor, The Right Honourable Sir Samuel James Way, Bart, PC, DCL, LLD, Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of South Australia, 1887-1893.
The Venerable Archdeacon George Henry Farr, MA, LLD, 1894-1896.
The Vice-Chancellor, William Barlow, CMG, LLD, 1897-1904.
Samuel Joshua Jacobs, JP, 1905-1912.
Sir George Brookman, KBE, 1913-1926.
Sir Walter James Young, KBE, 1927-1935.
Sir William George Toop Goodman, MICE, MIEE, MIE (Aust.), 1936-1953.
Sir Kenneth Agnew Wills, KBE, MC, KStJ, ED, 1954-1960.
Robert Allen Simpson, BE, 1961-1965.
The Honourable Samuel Joshua Jacobs, AO, QC, LLB, DUniv (Adel.), 1966-1992.
Mr Gerry P Allen, 1993-1996.
Mr Bruce Phillip Webb, AM, FTSE, MSc, FAusIMM, FIEAust., FAICD, 1997.
Mr Bruce Hundertmark, BE, 1998.
Mr Michael Lewis Abbott, LLB, QC 1999-2001.
Norman Ross Adler AC, B.Com (Melb), MBA (Columbia), 2001-2009.

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Chair of the Education Committee

The Right Honourable Sir Samuel James Way, Bart, PC, DCL, LLD, Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of South Australia, 1883-1916.
The Honourable Sir George John Robert Murray, KCMG, BA, LLM, Lieutenant Governor and Chief Justice of South Australia, 1916-1942.
Professor Sir William Mitchell, KCMG, MA, 1942-1948.
The Honourable Sir John Mellis Napier, KCMG, LLD, Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of South Australia, 1948-1953.
Professor Eric Aroha Rudd, AC, AM (Harv.), BSc (Adel.), 1954-1955.
Professor Peter Henry Karmel, AC, CBE, BA (Melb.), PhD (Camb.), FASSA, FACE 1956-1957.
Professor Leonard George Holden Huxley, MA, PhD (Oxford), FAA, 1958-1959.
Professor John Reginald Trevaskis, MA (Camb.), 1960-1961.
Professor Hugh Norwood Robson, MB, ChB, FRCP (Edin.), FRACP, 1962-1963.
Professor Denis Oswald Jordan, DSc, PhD (Lond.), FRACI, FAA, 1964-1965.
Professor Frank Bertram Bull, MA (Camb.), BSc (Lond.), 1966-1967.
Professor Eric Stephen Barnes, BA (Syd. and Camb.), PhD (Camb.), FAA., 1968-1969.
Professor Noel Thomas Flentje, PhD (Lond.), MSc, 1970.
Professor Robert Ford Whelan, MD, PhD, DSc (Belf.), FRACP, FAA, 1971.
Professor Lloyd Woodrow Cox, MB, ChB (NZ), FRCS (Eng.), FRACS, FRCOG, FAust.COG, 1971-1972.
Professor John Henry Carver, AM, BSc, MSc (Syd.), PhD, ScD (Camb.), FAA, FTSE, 1973-1974, (Emeritus Professor 1979).
Professor Charles Angas Hurst, BA (Hons) BSc (Melb.), PhD (Camb.), FAA, 1975-1976.
Professor Ian David John, MA (Melb.), PhD (Adel.), 1977-1978, (Emeritus Professor 1993).
Professor Henry Robert Wallace, BSc, PhD, DSc (Liv.), FAA, 1979-1980.
Professor David Murray Boyd, BSc (Glas.), 1981-1982.
Professor Peter Helmut Glow, BA (Melb.), PhD (Lond.), FASSA, 1983-1984.
Professor Kevin Marjoribanks, BSc, DipEd (UNSW), BA (UNE), MEd (Harvard) , PhD (Toronto), FASSA, FACE, FSS, 1985-1986.
Professor Gwendoline Fay Gale, AO, BA (Hons), PhD, DUniv (Adel.), FASSA, FAIM 1987.
Professor John Russell Prescott, PhD (Melb.), DPhil (Oxford), BSc, 1988.
Professor Renfrey Burnard Potts, AO, BSc, DPhil, DSc (Oxford), FTSE, FAA, FTS, (Emeritus Professor) 1989-1990.
Margaret Joan Meyler, BSc (Tas.), MAgrSc, 1991.
David Francis Wyatt, MA, DipT, 1992.

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Convenors/Chairs of the Academic Board

David Francis Wyatt, MA, DipT, 1992-1993.
Professor Nigel Douglas McEachern, BA, MA, PhD, 1997-1998.
Professor Jonathan James Pincus, PhD (Stanford) BEc (Hons) (Qld) FASSA, 1999-2002
Professor Maciej Henneberg, MSc, PhD, DSc, FAIBiol, 2003-2004
Professor John Charles Bodman Rae, MA (Cantab), PhD (Leeds), DMus (Adel), ARCM, FCLCM, FRSA, 2005-2006
Professor Robert Hill, B.Sc. (Hons), Ph.D (Adel), D.Sc. (Adel), 2007-2008.

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Adult Education (Directors)

Arnold Stanley Mcmath Hely, MA, BCom (NZ), 1957-1965.
James Wilfred Warburton, OAM, MA (Otago), 1966-1981.

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Registrars

William Barlow, BA, LLD, 1874-1882.
John Walter Tyas, 1882-1892.
Charles Reynolds Hodge, 1892-1924.
Frederick William Eardley, BA, AIASA, 1924-1944.
Albert William Bampton, AIASA,: Acting Registrar, 1945-1946; Registrar and Accountant, 1947-1950; Registrar, 1951-1954.
Victor Allen Edgeloe, AM, BA, DUniv, Registrar's Assistant, 1927-1946; Assistant Registrar, 1947-1954; Registrar, 1955-1973, (Emeritus Registrar 1973).
Alfred Edwin Shields, MBE, MA (Camb.), LLD (Sussex), 1973-1981.
Francis J O'Neill, BSc, 1982-1997.

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Academic Registrars

Henry Elliott Wesley Smith, BEd (Melb.), DipEd (Oxford), BA, DUniv; Guidance Officer For Ex-Service Students, 1946-1949: Academic Secretary, 1949-1955; Assistant Registrar (Academic), 1955-1964; Deputy Registrar (Academic), 1955-1964; Deputy Registrar, 1964-1965; Academic Registrar, 1965-1980.
Elizabeth Rosemary Dines, BA, Hons (Adel), DipEd (Melb) MA, PhD (Monash) 1988-1994.

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Executive Director, Finance and Infrastructure

Anthony Gerard Siebert BA, FCPA, 1997-2001)
Paul Johnathon Max Duldig, BEc, MEc (Adel), 2002-2007. (Vice-President (Services and Resources) from 2007).

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Executive Director, Student and Staff Services

Ian Miller Creagh MA (Lond), BA, GradDipEd (UNSW), 1997-2001
Susan MacIntosh, BA (Adel), 2002-2007

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Deans of Graduate Studies

Ian Elliott Davey BA (Hons), DipEd (Melb), MA, PhD (Toronto) 1991-1994)
David Roland Liljegren BSc (Hons), PhD (Adel) (1994-2001)
Neville Alexander Marsh BSc (Hons), PhD (Lond) GradCertEd (QUT) (2002-2004) (Emeritus Professor 2006)

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Librarians

Robert John Miller Clucas, BA, 1900-1930.
William Albert Cowan, MA (NZ), ABLS (Mich.), 1933-1964, (Emeritus Librarian 1964).
Ira Doley Raymond, MA (WA), MSc (Col.), ALAA 1964-1982, (Emeritus Librarian 1989).
Eric John Wainwright, MA (Camb.), DipAdmin.(WAustIT), ALA, ALAA, MIInfSc, 1981-1988.

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Bursars

Walter Meiklejohn, AASA, AICS, ACAA, Accountant, 1954; Assistant Registrar, 1955-1963; Bursar, 1964-1978.

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Professors

Professors emeriti

The title Professor Emeritus is an honour conferred by the governing body of a university in recognition, on the recipient's leaving the service of the University, of distinguished service to the University over a period of time. Its conferment is usually confined to professors entering upon retirement or leaving the University to assume some other highly responsible office associated with tertiary education. The names of the Professors Emeriti of the University are given in the list of former professors below.

Agricultural Biochemistry
Professor David James Donald Nicholas, BA (Camb.), PhD (Brist.), DSc (Lond.), FRACI, FRSC, 1964-1986, (Emeritus Professor 1987).

Agricultural Business
Professor Suresh Nicholas Samuel, BSc (Lond.), MSC (Michigan), PhD (Michigan) 1992-1996.

Agricultural Chemistry
Professor James Arthur Prescott, CBE, DSc, FRACI, FRS, FAA, 1924-1955, (Emeritus Professor 1956).
Professor Robert Kerford Morton, BScAgr (Syd.), PhD (Camb.), FAA, 1957-1962.

Agriculture
Professor Arnold Edwin Victor Richardson, DSc (Melb.), MA, 1924-1938.

Agronomy
Professor Hugh Christian Trumble, MAgrSc (Melb.), DSc, 1941-1953.
Professor Colin Malcolm Donald, CBE, BAgrSc (Syd.), MAgrSc, FAIAS, FAA, 1954-1973, (Emeritus Professor 1973).
Professor Colin Joseph Driscoll, MScAgr (Syd.), PhD (C'nell), DSc (NSW), 1976-1986.
Professor Donald Robert Marshall, BScAgr (Syd.), PhD (Calif.), 1987-1991.

Agronomy and Farm Systems
Professor Brian Peter Setchell, BVSc (Syd.), PhD (Camb.), ScD (Camb.), 1982-1996, (Emeritus Professor 1996).
Professor Timothy Gerald Reeves, BScAg (Nottingham) MAgrSc (Melb), 1992-1995.

Animal Sciences
Professor Walter Victor MacFarlane, MA, MD (NZ), FAA, 1964-1978, (Emeritus Professor 1979). 
Professor Simon Maddocks, BAgrSc (Hons), PhD, 2000-2002.

Animal and Vetinary Sciences
Professor Gail Irene Anderson, BVSc (Hons) (Melb.), MSc (Guelph), PhD (Toronto), 2008-2012.

Crop Protection
Professor Allen Kerr AO, BSc (Edin.), PhD, FAA, FRS. Lecturer in Plant Pathology, 1951; Senior Lecturer 1959; Reader, 1968; Professor 1980-1991, (Emeritus Professor 1992).
Professor Dudley Edwin Pinnock, HEC (Brunel UK), BScHons (Lond.) PhD(Lond.), DIC (Lond.), ARCS (Lond.), 1985-1997.

Entomology
Professor James Davidson, DSc (Liv.), FES, 1938-1945.
Professor Thomas Oakley Browning, BSc (Syd.), PhD, 1963-1983, (Emeritus Professor 1983).

Horticulture, Viticulture and Oenology
Professor Leslie Godell Paleg, BA (Washington, Mo.), MS, PhD (Iowa), DSc, 1966-1992, (Emeritus Professor 1993).
Professor Terence Henderson Lee, BSc (NSW), PhD (NSW), 1993-1997

Oenology
Professor Peter Bordier Høj MSc, PhD (Copenhagen), 1998-2004 (Emeritus Professor 2004)

Viticulture
Professor Peter Bordier Høj MSc, PhD (Copenhagen), 1994-1998

Parasitology
Professor William Percy Rogers, MSc (WAust.), DSc (Lond.), FAA, Professor of Zoology 1952-1962; Professor of Parasitology 1962-1979, (Emeritus Professor 1980).

Plant Pathology
Professor Noel Thomas Flentje, PhD (Lond.), MSc, 1964-1970.
Professor Henry Robert Wallace, BSc, PhD, DSc (Liv.), FAA, 1971-1989, (Emeritus Professor 1990).

Plant Physiology
Professor Lancelot Harris May, PhD (Lond.), BSc, 1964-1965.

Plant Science
Professor Robert Henry Symons, BScAgr (Melb.), FRS, FRAAS, 1961-1999, (Emeritus Professor 1999).
Professor Robin Graham, BSc (Qld), MSc (Calif), PhD (Calif), DAgrSc (Qld), FAIAS, 1995-2002.

Soil Science
Professor John Malcolm Oades, AM, BSc (Hons), PhD (Leeds), DUniv (Adel), DSc (Leeds) 1996-2001,(Emeritus Professor 2002)

Architecture and Town Planning
Professor Rolf Arthur Jensen, Barch (Liv.), FRIBA, FRAIA, FTPI, MInstRE, FRAPI, 1956-1976, (Emeritus Professor 1976).
Professor David Arthur Lewis Saunders, MArch, DipTRP (Melb.), DipArch (RMIT), FAIA, MRAPI, 1977-1986.

Architecture
Professor Antony Radford, PhD (Syd.), Dip TP (Edin.), BArch (Hons) (Newscastle), FAIA, 1989-2011, (Emeritus Professor 2012)

Anthropology
Professor Bruce Kapferer, BA (Syd.), PhD (Manc.), FASSH, 1973-1985.
Professor James Fredric Weiner, MA (Northwestern), PhD (ANU), FASSA, 1994-1999.     
Professor John Neville Gray, BA (Bucknell), MA (NWU), PhD (Hawaii), FAAS, 2003-2012 (Emeritus Professor 2013)

Asian Studies
Professor Gavan Patrick McCormack, BA, LLB, MA (Melb.), BA, MA, PhD (Lond.) 1988-1990. 
Professor Andrew John Watson, BA (Lon) 1991-2002. (Emeritus Professor 2002)

Australian Linguistics
Professor Theodor George Henry Strehlow, BA (Hons), MA, DLitt (Adel), Hon PhD (Uppsala), FAHA, 1970-1973, (Emeritus Professor 1974).

Classics
Professor Reverend Henry Read, MA (Camb.), 1874-1878.
Professor David Frederick Kelly, MA (Camb.), 1878-1894.
Professor Edward Vaughan Boulger, MA, Dlitt (Dublin), 1894.
Professor Edward Von Blomberg Bensly, MA (Camb.), 1895-1905.
Professor Henry Darnley Naylor, MA (Camb.), 1907-1927, (Emeritus Professor 1927).
Professor John Aloysius Fitzherbert, MC, MA (Camb.), 1928-1957, (Emeritus Professor 1958).
Professor John Reginald Trevaskis, MA (Camb.), 1958-1983, (Emeritus Professor 1983).
Professor Robert Glenn Ussher, MA (Dub.), PhD (Belf.), MRIA, 1984-1992, (Emeritus Professor 1993).

Education
Professor Zoltan Paul Dienes, PhD (Lond.), DipEd (Leic.), 1964-1965.
Professor Laurie Frederick Neal, BA, DipEd (Lond.), 1959-1978, (Emeritus Professor 1979).
Professor Kevin Marjoribanks, BSc, DipEd (UNSW), BA (UNE), MEd (Harvard) , PhD (Toronto), FASSA, FACE, FSS, 1974-1986; 1993-2005 (Emeritus Professor 2005)
Professor Jerzy Jaroslaw (George) Smolicz AM, BSc, PhD (Edin), FRIC, FACE, FASSA, 1987-2004 (Emeritus Professor 2004).

English Language and Literature and Mental and Moral Philosophy
Reverend John Davidson, 1874-1881.
Professor Edward Vaughan Boulger, MA, Dlitt (Dublin), 1883-1894.
Professor Sir William Mitchell, MA (Edin.), 1895-1900.

Mental and Moral Philosophy
The Reverend Professor William Roby Fletcher, MA, 1879, 1881-1883.
Professor Sir William Mitchell, MA (Edin.), 1901-1922, (Emeritus Professor 1922).
Professor John McKellar Stewart, CMG, PhD (Edin.), 1923-1950, (Emeritus Professor 1950).

Philosophy
Professor John Jamieson Carswell Smart AC, MA (Glas.), BPhil (Oxford), FAHA, 1950-1972, (Emeritus Professor 1972).
Professor Graham Charles Nerlich, BPhil (Oxford), MA, FAHA, 1974-1984, (Emeritus Professor 1994).
Professor Christian Edward Mortensen BA (Hons) (Qld) PhD (Adel), FAHA, 1998-2005 (Emeritus Professor 2005)

Creative Writing
Professor Thomas William Shapcott AO, BA (Qld), HonDLitt (Macq), FCPA, 1997-2005 (Emeritus Professor 2005)

English Language and Literature
The Reverend Professor William Roby Fletcher, MA, 1879, 1881-1883.
Professor Sir William Mitchell, MA (Edin.), 1901-1922, (Emeritus Professor 1922). Professor Sir Archibald Thomas Strong, MA (Oxford and Liv.), LittD (Melb.), 1922-1930.
Professor John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, MA (Oxford), 1935-1945.
Professor Charles Rischbieth Jury, MA (Oxford), 1946-1949.
Professor David Nichol Smith, Dlitt (Camb. and Durham), LLD (Glas. and Edin.), FBA, 1950-1951.
Professor Alexander Norman Jeffares, PhD (Dublin), D.Phil (Oxford), 1951-1956.
Professor Colin James Horne, AM, MA (Melb. and Oxford), MLitt (Oxford), DipEd (Melb), FAHA, 1957-1977, (Emeritus Professor 1978).
Professor Kenneth Knowles Ruthven, MA, PhD (Manc.), 1980-1985.
Professor John Anthony Colmer, MA (Oxford), PhD (Lond), FAHA, 1961-1986, (Emeritus Professor 1987).

French Studies
Professor James Gladstone Cornell, MA (Melb.), Lesl (Paris), Chevalier de La Legion d'Honneur, 1944-1969, (Emeritus Professor 1970).
Professor John Charles Davies, BA, DipEd (Syd.), Ddel'U (Paris), Commanduer des Palmes Academiques 1971-1988, (Emeritus Professor 1988).

Geography
Professor Graham Henry Lawton, BA, BEd (Melb.), MA (Oxford), FASSA, Reader-in-Charge 1951-1958; Professor 1959-1977, (Emeritus Professor 1978).
Professor Gwendoline Fay Gale, AO, BA, PhD, FASSA, 1978-1990, (Emeritus Professor 1990).

German Language and Literature
Professor Brian Laurence Dillon Coghlan, BA, PhD (Birm.) 1962-1991, (Emeritus Professor 1992).
Professor Anthony Renwick Stephens, BA, PhD (Syd) FAHA, 1980-1994

Modern History and English Language and Literature
Professor Robert Langton Douglas, MA (Oxford), 1900-1902.
Professor George Cockburn Henderson, MA, 1902-1921, (Emeritus Professor 1924)

Modern History
Professor George Cockburn Henderson, MA 1922-1924, (Emeritus Professor 1923).
Professor William Keith Hancock, MA (Oxford), 1926-1933.
Professor George Frederick Elliott Rude, MA (Camb.), PhD (Lond), DLitt, 1964-1967.
Professor Hugh Stretton, MA (Oxford), Hon.DLitt (ANU), Hon.LLD (Monash), FAHA, FASSA, 1954-1968, (Emeritus Professor 1989).

History
Professor Austin George Gough, BA (Melb.), DPhil (Oxford), FRHistS, 1970-1991, (Emeritus Professor 1992).
Professor Trevor Gordon Wilson, MA (NZ.), DPhil (Oxford), FAHA, FRHistS, 1968-1993, (Emeritus Professor 1994).
Professor Wilfrid Robertson Prest, BA (Hons)(Melb.), DPhil (Oxford), FRHistS FASSA, 1992-2007 (ARC Professorial Fellow 2002-2007). (Emeritus Professor, 2007)

Political Science and History
Professor Garnet Vere Portus, MA, BLitt (Oxford), 1934-1950, (Emeritus Professor 1951).

History and Political Science
Professor Walter George Keith Duncan, MA (Syd.), PhD (Lond.), 1951-1965.

Politics
Professor Walter George Keith Duncan, MA (Syd.), PhD (Lond.), 1966-1968, (Emeritus Professor 1969).
Professor Graeme Campbell Duncan, BA, DipEd (Melb.), MPhil (Oxford), 1969-1975.
Professor Bruce John McFarlane, MEc (Syd.) 1976-1988.
Professor Carol Lee Bacchi, BA (Hons) (Montreal), MA (Montreal), PhD (Montreal), 2005-2009, (Emeritus Professor 2010).

Institute for International Trade
Professor Andrew Stoler, MBA, BS in Foreign Service (Washington), 2010-2011.

Psychology
Professor Malcolm Alexander Jeeves, MA, PhD (Camb.), 1959-1969.
Professor Alan Traviss Welford, ScD (Camb), MA (Prin.), FASSA, 1968-1979, (Emeritus Professor 1979).
Professor Kenneth Alfred Provins, MA (Oxford), PhD (R'dg.), 1962-1983, (Emeritus Professor 1993).
Professor Peter Helmut Glow, BA (Melb.), PhD (Lond.), FASSA, 1974-1992, (Emeritus Professor 1993).
Professor Ian David John, BA, MA (Melb), PhD, 1973-1996.
Professor John Eaton Taplin BSc (Hons), PhD (Adel), FAPS, 2000-2004 (Emeritus Professor 2012).

Social Inquiry  
Professor Kathryn Lois Schaffer, PhD (Pitts), MA (Pitts), BA (Pennsylvania), 2000-2002
Professor Margaret Cachilla Bulbeck, LLB (Hons)(Qld), PhD (ANU), MA (ANU), BEc (Hons), 1998-2008, (Emeritus Professor 2008)

Social Sciences  
Professor Margaret Allen, BA (Hons), DipEd, MA (Essex), PhD (Flinders), 2007-2012, (Emeritus Professor 2011)

Dental Science
Professor Thomas Draper Campbell, DSc, DDSc, Director of Dental Studies, 1949-1953; Professor 1954-1958, (Emeritus Professor 1959).

Dental Health
Professor Arthur Maxwell Horsnell, FDSRCS, FRACDS, 1959-1977, (Emeritus Professor 1978).

Dentistry
Professor Henk Tideman, DDS (Utrecht), MD (Nijmegen), PhD (Amst.), FRACDS, FACOMS, 1985-1988.
Professor Tasman Brown, MDS, DDSc, FRACDS, FICD,  Professor of Restorative Dentistry 1976-1991, (Emeritus Professor 1992).
Professor Andrew John Spencer, BDSc (Melb), MDSc (Melb), MPH (Michigan), PhD (Melb), 1987-2011 (Emeritus Professor 2011).
Professor Vivian Brian Burgess,  BDS, MDS (Adel.), FADI, FICD, 2008-2012 (Emeritus Professor 2013)

Oral Biology
Professor John Charles Thonard, BDSc (Melb.), PhD (Roch.), FRCPath, 1966-1983, (Emeritus Professor 1984).

Oral Pathology and Oral Surgery
Professor David Ernest Poswillo, DDS (NZ), DSc (Otago), FDSRCS, FRACDS, FIBiol, MRCPath, 1977-1979.

Accounting
Dennis William Taylor BEc(Hons) (Monash), MBA(Melb), PhD (Hong Kong), GradDipCom (ChrisholmIT), FCPA, FHKSA, 2002-2006

Commerce
Professor Russell Lloyd Mathews, BCom (Melb.),  Professor 1958-1964.
Professor Frederick Kenneth Wright, BMetE, BCom (Melb.), FASA; Professor 1965-1977.
Professor Murray Scott Henderson, BEc, MEc, PhD (Calif) FASA, FCPA, CA 1979-2002 (Emeritus Professor 2003).

Economics
Professor Leslie Galfried Melville, BEc (Syd.), FIA, 1929-1931.
Professor Edward Owen Giblin Shann, MA (Melb.), 1935.
Professor Keith Sydney George Isles, BCom (Tas.), MA, MSc (Camb.), 1939-1945.
Professor John Hedley Brian Tew, BSc (Econ.)(Lond.), PhD (Camb.), 1950-1965, (Emeritus Professor 1965).
Professor Peter Henry Karmel, AC, CBE, BA (Melb.), PhD (Camb.), 1950-1965, (Emeritus Professor 1965).
Professor Harold French Lydall, BA (SA), MA (Oxford), 1962-1967.
Professor Eric Alfred Russell, BA, BCom (Melb.), MA (Camb.), 1964-1977.
Professor Geoffrey Colin Harcourt, MCom (Melb.), PhD (Camb.), FASSA, 1958-1985, (Emeritus Professor 1988). Professor Clifford Walsh, BSc (Econ.), MSc (Lond.), 1980-1988, Centre for Economic Studies UofA and FUSA,1992-2001 (Emeritus Professor 2001).
Professor Francis George Jarrett, BScAgr (Syd.), PhD (Iowa), FASSA, 1968-1988, (Emeritus Professor 1989).
Professor Jonathan James Pincus, PhD (Stanford) BEc (Hons) (Qld) FASSA, 1991-2003.

Management
Professor Fred Malcolm McDougall BCom (Hons), MCom, Dip Ed (Melb), PhD (adel) FCPA, 1987-2006.

Engineering
Professor Sir Robert William Chapman, CMG, MA, BCE (Melb.), MIE (Aust.),  Professor of Mathematics and Mechanics 1910-1919; Professor of Engineering 1907-1909 and 1920-1937, (Emeritus Professor 1937).
Professor John Broughton Agnew, BE (Syd.), PhD (Monash), FTSE, HonFIEAust, CPEng, FRACI, FIChemE, FAIE, MAIChE ,CEng, CChem, 1983-1998, (Emeritus Professor 1999).
Professor Harry Edward Green, BE (Hons.), ME, PhD (Ohio State), FIEAust, FIREE, 1991-1995, (Emeritus Professor 1999).
Professor Peter Alan Dowd, BSc (New England), MSc (Montreal), PhD (Leeds), FREng 2004-2013.

Chemical Engineering
Professor Robert William Francis Tait, BSc (Edin.), PhD (Birm.), 1955-1983, (Emeritus Professor 1983).
Professor David Ross Miller, MSc, PhD (Melb), PhD (Camb.), FIEAust, CPENG, 1966-1995, (Emeritus Professor 1996).
Professor Eric Hutton Dunlop, BSc (Strathclyde), PhD (Strathclyde), CChem, CEng, MRIC, 1996-2000.
Professor Keith Douglas King, BSC (Hons) (UNSW), PhD (UNSW), 2000-2011 (Emeritus Professor 2011).

Civil Engineering
Professor Rowland Cuthbert Robin, ME, 1939-1951.
Professor Frank Bertram Bull, MA (Camb.), BSc (Lond.), 1952-1972, (Emeritus Professor 1972).
Professor Cheung Yau Kai, BSc (Canton), PhD, DSc (Wales), 1974-1977.
Professor Robert Falcon Warner, BE, ME, PhD (Lehigh), 1979-1999, (Emeritus Professor 1999).

Civil Environmental and Mining Engineering
Professor Deric John Oehlers, BSc (London), MSc (Warwick), PhD (Warwick)  MICE, 2007 -2012.
Professor Stephen Donald Priest, BSc (Hons) (Bristol), PhD (Durham), CEng, MICE, 2008-2012.

Electrical Engineering
Professor Eric Osborne Willoughby, MA, BEE, BCE (Melb.), 1946-1972, (Emeritus Professor 1973).
Professor Jack Lionel Woodward, BE (Cant.), MASc (Tor.), 1966-1973.
Professor Robert Eugene Bogner, ME (Adel.), PhD (Lond.), DIC, FIEAust, FIEE, SMIEEE 1973-2001 (Professor Emeritus 2001).

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Professor Mary Josephine O'Kane, BSc (Qld), PhD (ANU), FTSE, 1997-2001.(Emeritus Professor 2001)
Professor Reginald Paul Coutts, BSc, BE(Hons), PhD, SMIEEE, IEAust, FACS, 1993-2003 (Emeritus Professor 2003)
Professor Peter Harold Cole, BSc, BE, PhD (Syd) (2007-2011)

Mechanical Engineering
Professor Henry Hargan Davis, BSc, BE (Syd.), PhD (Camb.), 1946-1973, (Emeritus Professor 1974).
Professor Ian Douglas Henderson, BTech, 1996-1999, (Adjunct Professor 1999).
Professor Russell Estcourt Luxton, BE (Hons)(Adel.), PhD (Lond.), 1974-1999, (Emeritus Professor 1999).
Professor Colin Henry Hansen, BE (Hons)(Adel.), PhD (Adel.), 1998-2011, (Emeritus Professor 2012)

Microwave Radar
Professor Shane Robert Cloude BSc (Hons) (Dundee), PhD(Birm), FIEEE, 2003-2005

Mining and Metallurgy
Professor Herbert William Gartrell, MA (Col.), BSc, 1938-1945.

Mining, Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering
Professor Edgar Clynton Ross Spooner, DPhil (Oxford), DSc (Tas.), FRIC, 1947-1962.

Law
Professor Walter Ross Phillips, LLB (Camb.), Lecturer-in-Charge, 1883-1887.
Professor Frederick William Pennefather, BA, LLD (Camb.), (Lecturer-In-Charge 1888-1889), 1890-1896.
Professor John William Salmond, MA, LLB (Lond.), 1897-1905.
Professor William Jethro Brown, LLD (Camb.), DLitt (Dublin), 1906-1916.
Professor Coleman Phillipson, MA, LLD, LittD (Manc.), 1920-1925.
Professor Arthur Lang Campbell, BA, BE (Syd.), 1926-1949.
Professor Richard Arthur Blackburn, BA, BCL (Oxford), BA, 1950-1957.
Professor Norval Ramsden Morris, LLM (Melb.), PhD (Lond.), 1958-1961.
Professor Daniel Patrick O'Connell, BA, LLM (NZ), PhD, LLD (Camb.), Reader 1953; Professor 1962-1972.
Professor Arthur Rogerson, MA (Oxford.), 1964-1978, (Emeritus Professor 1979).
Professor David St Ledger Kelly, BCL (Oxford), BA, LLB, 1980-1983.
Professor James Richard Crawford, PhD (Oxford), BA, LLB, 1983-1986.
Professor Horst Klaus Lucke, DrJur (Cologne), MCJ (New York), LLB, 1967-1984, (Emeritus Professor 1984).
Professor Marcia Anne Neave, LLB (Melb.) Appointed 1986-1991.
Professor Alexander Cuthbert Castles, LLB (Melb.), JD (Chic.), 1967-1994, (Emeritus Professor 1994).
Professor Hilary Christiane Charlesworth, BA (Hons.), LLB (Hons) (Melb.), SJD (Harv.), 1993-1998.
Professor Paul Ames Fairall, BA, LLB (Hons) (Canterbury NZ), LLM (ANU), 2002-2006.
Professor Michael James Detmold, LLB (Adel), 1991-2008. (Emeritus Professor, 2008).
Professor Adrian John Bradbrook, BA (Hons) (Cantab), MA (Cantab), LLM (York), PhD (Cantab), LLD (Melb), 1988-2011 (Emeritus Professor 2011) 
Professor Judith Gail Gardam, PhD, LLM (Melb), LLB (Monash), LLB (UWA), FASSA, (Emeritus Professor 2011)

Mathematic
Professor Horace Lamb, MA, LLD (Camb.), FRS, 1875-1885.
Professor John Raymond Wilton, Elder Professor, ScD (Camb.), DSc, 1920-1944.
Professor Harold William Sanders, Elder Professor, MA (Camb.), 1944-1958, (Emeritus Professor 1959).
Professor James Henry Michael, MSc, PhD, FAA, 1967-1969, (Emeritus Professor 1989).

Applied Mathematics
Professor Renfrey Burnard Potts, AO, BSc, DPhil, DSc (Oxford), FTSE, FAA, FTS, Professor 1959; Elder Professor of Mathematics 1975-1990 (Emeritus Professor 1991). 
Professor Jens Rainer Maria Radok, MA (Melb), DIng (Munich), 1964-1966
Professor Ernest Oliver Tuck, BSc (Hons) PhD (Camb.), FAA, FTSE, 1974-2002; Elder Professor 1991-2002 (Emeritus Professor 2002)

Pure Mathematics
Professor Eric Stephen Barnes, Elder Professor, BA (Syd. and Camb.), PhD (Camb.), FAA, 1959 -1974, (Emeritus Professor 1975), 1981-1983.
Professor William Moran, BSc (Birm.), PhD (Sheff.), FAA. Appointed 1976-1991.

Mathematical Statistics
Professor Edmund Alfred Cornish, BAgSc (Melb), MSc, DSc. (1960-1964).

Statistics
Professor Alan Treleven James, PhD (Prin.), MSc, 1965-1989, (Emeritus Professor 1990).
Professor Richard Gentry Jarrett, BSc (Hons) (Adel), PhD (Lond.), GradDipOrgBch (Swinburne) 1991-1999.

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Professor Mathilde Clara Regin Peters, DMD, PhD, FADM, 1994-1996.

Anatomical Science
Professor Janis Priedkalns, BVSc (Syd), PhD (Minn.), MA (Cantab.), MRCVS (Eng.), FRS (SA), MNYASc (NY), MLASc (Latvia), Elder Professor, 1972-1996, (Emeritus Professor 1997).

Anatomy
Professor Archibald Watson, MD (Paris and Gott.), FRCS, 1885-1919, (Emeritus Professor 1919).
Professor Frederic Wood Jones, MB, DSc (Lond.), FRS, 1920-1926.
Professor Herbert Henry Woollard, MD, DSc (Melb.), 1927-1929.
Professor Herbert John Wilkinson, MD (Syd.), BA, 1930-1936.
Professor Frank Golby, MA, MD (Camb.), MRCP (Lond.), 1937-1944.
Professor Andrew Arthur Abbie, MD, DSc (Syd.), PhD (Lond.), FRACP, FRAI, 1945-1970, (Emeritus Professor 1971).

Cancer Council Chair of Cancer Care
Professor Ian Norman Olver MD, PhD, CMin, FRACP, FAChPM, MRACMA, 2001-2006.

National Heart Foundation Cardiology
Professor Philip John Barter, MBBS (1964) (Adel), PhD (1972)(ANU), MRACP (1969), FRACP (1977) 1992-2003.

Clinical Pharmacology
Professor Felix Bochner MBBS, MD (Qld), FRACP, 1980-2005 (Emeritus Professor 2005).
Professor Derek Brian Frewin AO, MBBS (Ceylon), MD (Adel), FRACP, FRCP, FRACMA 1991-2005 (Emeritus Professor 2005).

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology
Professor Ivan Stanley de la Lande, AO, MSc, PhD (Melb). Reader 1958; Professor 1970-1990, (Emeritus Professor 1990).

Clinical Nursing
Professor Alan Pearson, RN, MSc (Manchester), PhD (Lond.), FRCN (UK). DipNEd, 1995-1999 (Adjunct Professor 2000).
Professor Alison Joan Tierney CBE, BSc (SocSc-Nurs), PhD (Edin), HonDNurs (Napier), RGN, FRCN, 2003-2005

Community Medicine
Professor Anthony John McMichael, PhD (Monash), MB, BS, FACOM, 1986-1993.
Professor Timothy George Calvert Murrell, DTM and H (Syd.), MB, BS, MD, FRACGP, 1975-1994, (Emeritus Professor 1994).

Emergency Medicine
Professor Christopher James Baggoley, BVS (Hons) (Melb), MBBS (Flin), BSocAdmin (Flin), FACEM, 2002-2005.

Experimental Medicine
Professor Edward Weston Hurst, MD, DSc, (Birm.), FRCP (Lond.), 1938-1943.
Professor Everton Rowe Trethewie, MD, DSc (Melb.), MRACP, 1944-1949.

Medicine
Professor Hugh Norwood Robson, MB, ChB (Edin.), MRCP, FRCP (Edin.), FRACP 1953-1965, (Emeritus Professor 1965).
Professor Basil Stuart Hetzel, MD, MRCP, FRACP, 1964-1968.
Professor Donald John Deller, MB, BS, DPhil, MD, MRCP, FRACP, 1966-1974.
Professor David John Crymble Shearman, BSc, MB, ChB, PhD (Edin.), FRACP, FRCPE, 1975-1997.
Professor Graeme Paul Young, MBBS, MD, FRACP, 1995-1997.
Professor Anders Gustaf Wangel, MD, BS,(Adel.), PhD (Oxford), FRCP, FRACP, 1967-1996. (Emeritus Professor 2002). 
Professor Richard Ernest Ruffin, BSc (Hons) (Melb), MBBS (Hons) (Monash), MD (Monash), MRACP, FRACP, 1998-2010 (Emeritus Professor 2010).
Professor Laurence Ashley Blackshaw, BSc (Sheffield), PhD (Sheffield), MRCPS, NHMRC, 2010-2011.

Mental Health
Professor William Alexander Cramond, OBE, MD (Aberd.), DPM (Lond.), 1963-1971.
Professor Issy Pilowsky AM, MB, ChB, DipPM (RCP&S), MD, FRACP, 1971-1997 (Emeritus Professor 2002).

Neurosurgery
Nigel Ronald Jones MBBS, BMedSc, DPhil (Oxford) FRACS (1992-2004).

Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Professor Lloyd Woodrow Cox, AM, MB, ChB (NZ), FRCS (Eng.), FRACS, FRCOG, FRACOG, 1938-1984, (Emeritus Professor 1984).
Professor Colin Douglas Matthews, MB, ChB, MD (Liv.), FRCOG, FRACOG, 1970-1998.
Professor Jeffrey Samuel Robinson, CBE, BA (Hons), MB ChB BAO (Queens, Belf) FRACOG, FRCOG, 1986-2007 (Emeritus Professor, 2007) 
Professor Alastair Harvey MacLennan, MBChB, MD (Glasgow), FRACOG, FRCOG, 1999-2012 (Emeritus Professor 2013).

Paediatrics
Professor George Morrison Maxwell, MB, ChB, MD (Edin.), FRCP (Lond.), FRACP, 1959-1988, (Emeritus Professor1988).
Professor Donal Muir Robertson MB ChB, MC (Otago) FRACP, 1999-2005.
Professor Allison June Cowan, BSc (Hons), PhD (Manc), NHMRC, 2011-2012.

Pathology
Professor Sir John Burton Cleland, MD (Syd.), 1920-1948, (Emeritus Professor 1949).
Professor James Struan Robertson, MB, BS (Syd.), DPhil (Oxford.), FRACP, MCPA, 1949-1979, (Emeritus Professor 1980).
Professor Barrie Vernon-Roberts, AO,MBBS, PhD, MD (Lond) FRCPath, FRCPA, FAOrthA (Hon), FRS.SA, 1976-2005 (Professor Emeritus 2005).

Physiology
Professor Sir Edward Charles Stirling, CMG, MA, MD, ScD (Camb.), FRCS (Eng.), FRS, 1900-1919.
Professor John Lewis Veale, MB, ChB, BSc (Otago), FRACP, 1972-1988, (Emeritus Professor 1989.
Professor Isabella Caroline McMillen MA, DPhil (Oxford), MB BChir (Cantab), 1992-2005.
Professor Timothy Stuart Miles BDS (Adel), PhD (W Ontario), DSc (Adel), FRACDS, 2000-2008 (Emeritus Professor 2008)

Psychiatry
Professor David Bailey Jarrett, DPM, PhD, 1992-1997.
Professor Robert John Kosky, BSc, DipEd (Melb), MBBS, MD (Monash), FRANZCP, 1988-1999, (Emeritus Professor 1999).
Professor Robert Donald Goldney, MB BS, MD (Adel), FRANZCP, FRCPsych, 1996-2007. (Emeritus Professor, 2007). 
Professor Johan Schioldann, MD (Copenh), DMSc (Odense), LicDipPhsyiatr (Copenh) FRANZCP, 1996-2008 (Emeritus Professor 2008)

Public Health
Professor Philip Ryan, MBBS (Syd) BSC (ANU), FRACP, 2007-2012, (Emeritus Professor 2012)

Rural Health
Professor David Wilkinson, BSc (Hons) (Manc), MBChB (Manc), MSc (Columbia), MD (Natal), MFPHM (UK), MRCP (UK), FAFPHM, FRACGP, FACRRM, DPEC, DCH, DTMH, PCM, 2000-2002.

Surgery
Professor Richard Pomfret Jepson, BSc, MB, ChB (Manc.), FRCS (Eng.), FRACS, 1958-1968.
Professor John Ludbrook, BMedSc, MB, ChM (NZ), MD (Otago.), FRCS, FRACS, 1969-1980, (Emeritus Professor 1981).
Professor Ronald Gordon Elmslie, MB, BS, MD (Syd.), FRACS Appointed Reader, 1969; Professor, 1975-1991.
Professor Glyn Garfield Jamieson, MBBS, MS (Adel.), MD (Rennes), FRACS ,FACS, 1982-2012 (Emeritus Professor 2013)

Music
Professor Joshua Ives, MusBac (Camb.), 1884-1901.
Professor John Matthew Ennis, DMus (Lond.), 1902-1918.
Professor Edward Harold Davies, DMus, FRCM, 1919-1947.
Professor John Bishop, OBE, DMus (Melb.), FRCM, 1948-1964.
Professor David Galliver, MA (Oxford), ARCM, 1966-1983, (Emeritus Professor 1986).
Professor Heribert Esser, MMus (Cologne), 1987-1994.
Professor David Robert Lockett, MusB, MMus, DMus (Adel) ARCM, 2008-2009 (Emeritus Professor 2010).

Music Studies
Professor Andrew Dalgarno McCredie, AM, MA (Syd.), PhD(Hamburg), FAHA, 1978-1994, (Emeritus Professor 1994).

Bacteriology
Professor Albert Edward Platt, PhD (Camb.), DTM, DTH (Syd.), DipBact (Lond.), MD, 1938-1941.

Biochemistry and General Physiology
Professor Thorburn Brailsford Robertson, BSc (Adel), PhD (UCal), DSc (Adel), 1919-1930.
Professor Sir Charles James Martin, CMG, DSc (Lond.), FRCP, FRS, 1931-1933.
Professor Sir Mark Ledingham Mitchell, MSc (Camb.), 1938-1962, (Emeritus Professor 1962).
Professor Robert Kerford Morton, BScAgr (Syd.), PhD (Camb.), FAA, 1963.
Professor William Herdman Elliott, MA (Oxford & Camb.), PhD (Camb.), FAA, 1965-1988, (Emeritus Professor 1989).

Biochemistry
Professor George Ernest Rogers, MSc (Melb.), PhD (Camb.), DSc, FAA, 1978-1992, (Emeritus Professor 1993).
Professor Peter David Rathjen, BSc (Hons)(Adel.), PhD (Oxford), 1996-1999.

Botany
Professor Theodore George Bentley Osborn, DSc (Manc.), 1912-1928, (Emeritus Professor 1962).
Professor Joseph Garnett Wood, PhD (Camb.), DSc, FAA, 1935-1959.
Professor Sir Rutherford Ness Robertson, AC, CMG,  DSc (Syd.), ScD (Camb.), FRS, FAA, 1962-1969, (Emeritus Professor 1969).
Professor Peter Gordon Martin, BSc, PhD, 1967-1984, (Emeritus Professor 1984).
Professor Hugh Bryan Spencer Womersley, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, DSc (Adel), FAA, 1946-1988, (Emeritus Professor 1988).

Computer Science
Professor John Allen Overstone, BSc (Syd.), PhD (Camb.), 1964-1970.
Professor Frank Hirst, MS., PhD (Melb.), FInstP, FAIP, 1972-1984, (Emeritus Professor 1984).
Professor Christopher John Barter BE (Hons) (Adel), PhD (UNSW), FIEAust, FACS 1984-2003 (Emeritus Professor 2003).

Economic Geology
Eric Aroha Rudd, AC, AM (Harv.), BSc, 1949-1970, (Emeritus Professor 1970).

Genetics
Professor David Guthrie Catcheside, MA (Camb.), DSc (Lond.), FRS, FAA, 1952-1955.
Professor John Henry Bennett, MA, BSc (Melb.), PhD (Camb.), 1956-1991, (Emeritus Professor 1992).

Natural Science
Professor Ralph Tate, FGS, 1875-1901.

Applied and Molecular Ecology
Professor Hugh Phillip Possingham, BSc (Hons) (Adel), DPhil (Oxford), FAA, 1991-2000, (Emeritus Professor 2000).

Environmental Biology
Professor Frank Andrew Smith, PhD, 1967-2000, (Emeritus Professor 2000).
Professor Joseph Tony Wiskich, BSc (Syd.), PhD (Syd.), 1962-2000, (Emeritus Professor 2000).

Environmental Studies
Professor Martin Anthony Joseph Williams MA (Cantab), PhD (ANU) ScD (Cantab), 1993-2007. (Emeritus Professor, 2007).

Earth and Environmental Studies
Professor Ian Rutherford Pilmer, BSc (Hons) (UNSW), PhD (Macq), 2006-2012.

Geology and Palaeontology
Professor Walter Howchin, FGS; Honorary Professor, 1918-1920.

Geology and Mineralogy
Professor Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, BE (Syd.), DSc, FRS, 1921-1952, (Emeritus Professor 1953).
Professor Arthur Richard Alderman, PhD (Camb.), DSc, FGS, 1953-1966, (Emeritus Professor 1966).
Professor Martin Fritz Glaessner, LLD, PhD (Vienna), DSc (Melb.), FAA, 1964-1971, (Emeritus Professor 1972).
Professor Rupert William Roye Rutland, BSc, PhD (Lond.), FGS, 1966-1980, (Emeritus Professor 1980).

Geology and Geophysics
Professor David Murray Boyd, BSc (Glas.), Geophysics. Professor of Geophysics, 1969-1991, (Emeritus Professor 1992).
Professor Lawrence Austin Frakes, MA, PhD (Calif.), 1985-1996, (Emeritus Professor 1996).
Professor Peter Johannes Maria Ypma, PhD (Leiden), 1973-1995, (Emeritus Professor 1996).
Professor Stewart Alan Greenhalgh BSc (Hons), MSc (Syd), PhD (Minnesota) DSc (Syd), FTSE, 1997-2003 (Chair of Geology 2003), (Emeritus Professor 2012).

National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics
Professor William Joseph Stuart, PhD, 1986-1996.
Professor James Keith Applegate, BSc, MA, PhD, (Texas, Austin), 1994-1997.
Professor Cedric Mills Griffiths, BSc, PhD (Eng.), 1994-1999.

Human Physiology and Pharmacology
Professor Sir Cedric Stanton Hicks, MSc (NZ), PhD (Camb.), MD, FRIC, 1926-1957, (Emeritus Professor 1958).
Professor Robert Ford Whelan, MD, PhD, DSc (Belf.), FRACP, FAA, 1958-1971, (Emeritus Professor 1971).

Mathematics and Physics
Professor William Henry Bragg, MA (Camb.), FRS, 1886-1908.
Professor Paul Charles William Davies, BSc (Hons), PhD (Lond.), FIP, FAIP, 1990-1997.

Mathematical Physics
Professor Herbert Sydney Green, BSc (Lond.), DSc, PhD (Edin.), FAA, 1951-1985, (Emeritus Professor 1986).
Professor Charles Angas Hurst, BA, BSc (Melb.), PhD (Camb.), FAA, 1964-1988, (Emeritus Professor 1989).

Science
Professor Ieva Kotlarski, BSc (Hons) PhD, 1965-1997, (Emeritus Professor 1997).

Biotechnology
Professor Edwina Cecily Cornish BSc, PhD (Melb), FTSE, FAIM 2000-2003.

Microbiology
Professor George Bellamy Mackaness, MB, BS (Syd.), MA, D.Phil (Oxford), DCP (Lond.), 1963-1965.

Microbiology and Immunology
Professor Derrick Rowley, AM, BSc, PhD, MD (Lond.), 1959-1988, (Emeritus Professor 1988).
Professor Christopher John Burrell, BSc (Med), MB,BS (Syd), PhD (ANU), FRCPath, FRCPA, 1990-2003.

Molecular and Biomedical Science
Professor Christopher John Burrell, BSc (Med), MB,BS (Syd), PhD (ANU), FRCPath, FRCPA, 2004-2008, (Emeritus Professor 2008).
Professor John Wallace, BSc Agr (Hons)(Syd), PhD (Syd), ASBMB, 2000-2011 (Emeritus Professor 2011).
Professor Peter David Rathjen, BSc (Hons) (Adel.), PhD (Oxford), 2000-2006.
Professor Jeremy Timmis, BSc (Hons) PhD (Wales), 2006-2012 (Emeritus Professor 2012).

Chemistry
Professor Edward Henry Rennie, MA (Syd.), DSc (Lond. and Melb.), 1884-1927.
Professor Alexander Killen Macbeth, CMG, MA (StAnd.), DSc (Belf.), 1928-1954, (Emeritus Professor 1955). Professor Michael Ian Bruce, BA (Hons), MA (Oxford), PhD, DSc (Bristol) FAA, FRACI, 1982-2008, (Emeritus Professor 2008)
Professor John Hamilton Bowie, BSc (Hons) (Melb.), MSc (Melb.), PhD (Nott.), DSc (Adel), FRACI, FRSC, FRSSA, 1993-2011 (Emeritus Professor 2011)

Chemistry and Physics
Professor Robert Alan Vincent, BSc (Hons)(Cantaur), PhD (Cantaur), 2000-2011, (Emeritus Professor 2011). 
Professor Roger William Clay, BSc (Hons)(Lond.), PhD (Lond.), 2003-2012, (Emeritus Professor 2012).

Mawson Institute For Antarctic Research
Professor Frederick John Jacka, BSc, PhD (Melb.). Appointed 1965-1990.

Organic Chemistry
Professor Sir Geoffrey Malcolm Badger, AO, Ktcr, PhD, DSc, DUniv., FRSC, FRACI., FTSE, FAA, FACE, 1955-1964, (Emeritus Professor 1964) And 1977-1979)
Professor Athelstan Laurence Johnson Beckwith, BSc (WAust.), PhD (Oxford), FAA, 1965-1981.
Professor John Hamilton Bowie, BSc (Hons) (Melb.), MSc (Melb.), PhD (Nott.), DSc (Adel), FRACI, FRSC, FRSSA, 1983-1993.

Physical and Inorganic Chemistry
Professor Donald Richard Stranks, MSc, PhD (Melb.), FRACI, 1964-1973.
Professor Denis Oswald Jordan, MSc, PhD, DSc (Lond.), FRACI, FAA, 1954-1979, (Emeritus Professor 1980).
Professor Michael Ian Bruce, BA (Hons), MA (Oxford), PhD, DSc (Bristol) FAA, FRACI, 1973-1982, (Emeritus Professor 2008)

Physics
Professor Sir Kerr Grant, MSc (Melb.), FInstP, Acting Professor, 1909-1910; Professor, 1911-1948, (Emeritus Professor 1949).
Professor Leonard George Holden Huxley, KBE, MA, PhD (Oxford), FAA, 1949-1959, (Emeritus Professor 1960).
Professor Kenneth Gordon McCracken, BSc, PhD (Tas.), 1956-1969.
Professor John Henry Carver, MSc (Syd.), PhD, ScD (Camb.), 1961-1978, (Emeritus 1979).
Professor John Russell Prescott, PhD (Melb.), PhD (Oxford.), BSc, 1971-1987, (Emeritus Professor 1990)
Professor Stewart Alan Greenhalgh BSc (Hons), MSc (Syd), PhD (Minnesota) DSc (Syd), FTSE, 2003-2011 (Emeritus Professor 2012).

Physics and Mathematical Physics
Professor John Russell Prescott, PhD (Melb.), PhD (Oxford.), BSc, 1988-1989, (Emeritus Professor 1990).

Zoology
Professor Thomas Harvey Johnston, MA, DSc (Syd.), 1922-1951.
Professor Herbert George Andrewartha, BS (UWA), MAgSc (Melb), DSc (Adel), FAA, 1962-1972 (Emeritus Professor 1973).
Professor William David Williams, BSc, PhD, DSc (Liv.), DipEd (Monash), FAIBiol, 1975-1994, (Emeritus Professor 1994).
Professor Russell Victor Baudinette BSc (Hons) (Monash) PhD (Ucal Irvine) 1999-2004.

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