White, Michael James Denham (1910 - 1983)

White was Professor of Zoology 1958-64 and then Professor of Genetics 1964 - 1975, University of Melbourne. From 1976 he was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Population Biology at the Australian National University. He made important contributions to many aspects of cytology and cytogenetics and to evolutionary biology, including speciation theory and systematics.

Events

20 August 1910	Born London, England
1931	Educated University of London BSc (Hons)
1932	University of London, MSc
1932 - 1935	Assistant Lecturer in Zoology, University College London
1935 - 1940	Lecturer in Zoology
1937 - 1938	Rockefeller Research Fellow, Columbia University, United States of America
1940	University of London, DSc
1940 - 1945	Wartime positions as Statistician and Entomologist, British Ministry of Food
1945 - 1947	Reader in Zoology, University of London
1947	Guest Investigator, Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institute of Washington, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
1947 - 1953	Professor of Zoology, University of Texas
1953 - 1956	Senior Research Fellow, Genetics Section, Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra
1955	Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
1957 - 1958	Associate Professor, then Professor of Zoology, University of Missouri
1958 - 1964	Professor of Zoology, University of Melbourne
1959	MSc, University of Melbourne
1961	Fellow of the Royal Society
1962	President, Section D, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
1963	Honorary Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1964 - 1975	Professor of Genetics, University of Melbourne
1965	Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 1965
1969 - 1971	President, Australian Entomological Society
1970 - 1972	President, Genetics Society of Australia
1976 - 1983	Visiting Fellow, Department of Population Biology, Australian National University
1978	Foreign Member, American Philosophical Society
1978	Socio Straniero, Accademia Nazionale dei Lencei
1979	Silver Medal for Research, Royal Society of Victoria
1980	Honorary Member
1981	Foreign Associate, United States National Academy of Sciences
1983	Minerva Medal, University of Rome
1983	Linnean Medal for Zoology, Linnean Society of London
16 December 1983	Died Canberra

Professorial Chair

• Chair of Genetics, Faculty of Science (1964 - )

  [1964 - 1975]

• Chair of Zoology, Faculty of Science (1920 - )

  [1958 - 1964]

• 'White, Michael James Denham - AAS Biographical Memoir', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 10, no. 2, 1994, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/aasmemoirs/white.htm.
• 'White, Michael James Denham - Ms 78', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/academy/basser/lists/ms078.txt.
• 'White, Michael James Denham (1910 - 1983), Biographical Entry', in Bright Sparcs, 2001 edn, 2001, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000891b.htm.