O'Donnell, Thomas Aloysius

After several years with industry and the CSIRO, O'Donnell pursued a teaching career with the University of Melbourne. He was Professor in Inorganic Chemistry 1979 - 1988.

O'Donnell's pioneered the introduction of an original system of quantitative analysis performed on a semi-micro scale which was subsequently adopted by chemistry departments around the world. At the University of Melbourne, he equipped a special laboratory for the study of fluorine, and together with a group of post-graduate workers, developed new techniques for manipulating and analysing fluorine and other very reactive materials.

Events

1944	BSc, University of Melbourne
1946	MSc, University of Melbourne
1954	PhD for experimental work involving measurements of the extremely small vapour pressures of the metals cadmium and bismuth.
1955	Royal Society and Nuffield Foundation Commonwealth Bursar
1962	Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, University of Melbourne
1979 - 1988	Professor in Inorganic Chemistry, University of Melbourne
199?	Professor Emeritus, University of Melbourne

Professorial Chair

• Chair of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Science (1962 - 1994)

  [1979 - 1988]