Goodall, David William (1914 - 2018)

Born 4 April 1914 in Edmonton, England; Died 10 May 2018, aged 104, in Switzerland.

David William Goodall is an Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Ecosystem Management at Edith Cowan University and Editor-in-Chief of the series Ecosystems of the World. Throughout his distinguished career which stretches over sixty years, Goodall has worked in the five major continents of the world and has (co-) authored well over 130 scientific works. His present interests include developing methods for probabilistic classification and its application to Australian Drosera species and subspecies and to vegetation data collected according to the Braun-Blanquet method.

1935 - Forbes Memorial Prize and Medal received from the Royal College of Science

1935 - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of London

1939 - 1946 - Research Assistant then Scientific Officer at the Research institute of Plant Physiology at the East Malling Research Station in Kent, UK

1941 - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of London

1946 - 1947 - Plant Physiologist at the West African Cacao Research Institute in Tafo, Ghana

1948 - Migrated to Australia

1948 - 1952 - Senior Lecturer in Botany at the University of Melbourne

1952 - 1954 - Senior Lecturer, then Reader in Botany at the University College of the Gold Coast in Achimota, Ghana

1953 - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne

1954 - 1956 - Professor of Agricultural Botany at the University of Reading, UK

1956 - 1961 - Director of the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Tobacco Research Institute in Mareeba, Queensland

1956 - 1961 - Senior Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Plant Science

1961 - 1967 - Senior Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Mathematical Statistics in Perth

1965 - 1967 - Honorary Reader in Botany at the University of Western Australia

1967 - 1968 - Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of California, USA

1968 - 1974 - Professor of Systems Ecology at the Ecology Centre at the Utah State University, USA

1974 - 1978 - Member of the Advisory Committee for the Swedish Coniferous Forest Project.

1974 - 1979 - Senior Principal Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management in Canberra, Deniliquin and Perth

1979 - Retired

1979 - 1998 - Honorary Research Fellow at the CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management then the Division of Wildlife and Ecology

1990 - Doctor of Science Nat. honoris causa received from the Università degli Studí di Trieste, Italy

1998 - Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Ecosystem Management at Edith Cowan University, Joondalup campus

2018 - Died by assisted suicide in Switzerland, with some publicity, aged 104

Source: Extracted from: Encyclopedia of Australian Science website: http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004621b.htm
Portrait Photo: c.1971, Wikipedia

Collecting localities for 'Goodall, D.W.' from AVH (2024)

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