Emeritus Professors

The title of Emeritus Professor may be conferred on a retiring Professor of the University in recognition of sustained outstanding service at the University of Sydney.

Senate has delegated to the Chair Appointments Committee authority to approve the award of the title of Emeritus Professor.

1900s / 1910s / 1920s / 1930s / 1940s / 1950s / 1960s / 1970s / 1980s / 1990s / 2000s / 2010s

Updated 17 May 2013

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1905

• Emeritus Professor Theodore Thomas Gurney
• Emeritus Professor Walter Scott

1907

• Emeritus Professor Archibald Liversidge

1909

• Emeritus Professor William Pitt Cobbett

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1917

• Emeritus Professor William A Haswell

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1920

• Emeritus Professor Thomas Butler

1921

• Emeritus Professor Sir Mungo William MacCallum

1922

• Emeritus Professor Francis Anderson

1924

• Emeritus Professor Sir Edgeworth David

1926

• Emeritus Professor William Henry Warren

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1934

• Emeritus Professor Horatio Scott Carslaw

1936

• Emeritus Professor David Arthur Welsh

1939

• Emeritus Professor James Douglas Stewart

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1941

• Emeritus Professor Sir Henry Egerton Barraclough
• Emeritus Professor Ernest Rudolph Holme
• Emeritus Professor Sir John Peden
• Emeritus Professor John Cadell Windeyer

1945

• Emeritus Professor Henry Tasman Lovell
• Emeritus Professor Richard Charles Mills
• Emeritus Professor George Gibb Nicholson
• Emeritus Professor Oscar Ulric Vonwiller
• Emeritus Professor Eben Gowrie Waterhouse
• Emeritus Professor Edward Montague Wellish

1946

• Emeritus Professor Charles Edward Fawsitt
• Emeritus Professor Robert Dickie Watt

1947

• Emeritus Professor Francis Armand Bland
• Emeritus Professor Frederick Alldis Eastaugh
• Emeritus Professor Leslie Wilkinson

1948

• Emeritus Professor Leo Arthur Cotton
• Emeritus Professor Henry Priestley
• Emeritus Professor Arthur Lindsay Sadler

1949

• Emeritus Professor William John Dakin
• Emeritus Professor Sir John Percival Vissing Madsen
• Emeritus Professor Stephen Henry Roberts

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1950

• Emeritus Professor Harvey Sutton

1951

• Emeritus Professor William Aitken Miller

1953

• Emeritus Professor Alfred Samuel Hook
• Emeritus Professor William Keith Inglis
• Emeritus Professor Hugh Kingsley Ward
• Emeritus Professor William Lawry Waterhouse

1954

• Emeritus Professor Arthur Dale Trendall

1956

• Emeritus Professor Adolphus Peter Elkin

1957

• Emeritus Professor Sir Harold Robert Dew
• Emeritus Professor Charles George Lambie
• Emeritus Professor Claude Witherington Stump

1959

• Emeritus Professor John Anderson
• Emeritus Professor Ronald Montagu Cairns (Rex) Gunn

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1960

• Emeritus Professor Lorimer Fenton Dods

1961

• Emeritus Professor Victor Albert Bailey
• Emeritus Professor Alexander George Mitchell

1962

• Emeritus Professor J Macdonald Holmes

1964

• Emeritus Professor A J Arnott

1965

• Emeritus Professor William Matthew O'Neil
• Emeritus Professor George Pelham Shipp

1966

• Emeritus Professor Harold Roy Carne
• Emeritus Professor John R A McMillan
• Emeritus Professor Alan Ker Stout

1968

• Emeritus Professor Sir Edward Ford
• Emeritus Professor Bruce Toomba Mayes
• Emeritus Professor Thomas Gerald Room

1969

• Emeritus Professor T G Hunter

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1970

• Emeritus Professor Charles William Shoppee

1971

• Emeritus Professor S J Butlin
• Emeritus Professor Ian Allan Ramie Henning
• Emeritus Professor Raymond James Wood Le Fèvre

1972

• Emeritus Professor Keith Edward Bullen

1973

• Emeritus Professor Charles Edward Marshall
• Emeritus Professor Julius Stone

1974

• Emeritus Professor Donald Peart
• Emeritus Professor Kenneth Owen Shatwell
• Emeritus Professor Spencer Smith-White

1975

• Emeritus Professor Roland Herbert Thorp

1976

• Emeritus Professor William Fraser (Bill) Connell
• Emeritus Professor Ronald Kenneth Macpherson
• Emeritus Professor Jack Leslie Still

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1977

• Emeritus Professor Campbell Harry Graham
• Emeritus Professor Frank Rees Magarey
• Emeritus Professor Bernard William Smith
• Emeritus Professor Irvine Armstrong Watson

1978

• Emeritus Professor Charles Ruthven Bickerton Blackburn
• Emeritus Professor Wilbur Norman Christiansen
• Emeritus Professor Clifford Walter Emmens
• Emeritus Professor Henry Oliver Lancaster
• Emeritus Professor Jack William Roderick
• Emeritus Professor Charles Norman Watson-Munro

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1980

• Emeritus Professor Marjorie Grace Jacobs
• Emeritus Professor Colin George Frederick Simkin

1981

• Emeritus Professor Robert Hanbury Brown
• Emeritus Professor Patrick Macartney de Burgh
• Emeritus Professor William Robert Geddes
• Emeritus Professor Trevor Langford-Smith

1982

• Emeritus Professor Keith Oliver Campbell
• Emeritus Professor Raymond John Chambers
• Emeritus Professor John Sutherland Lyell
• Emeritus Professor Michard John Thornley Norman
• Emeritus Professor Murray Theodore Pheils

1983

• Emeritus Professor Louis Charles Birch
• Emeritus Professor Robert Hughes Black]]
• Emeritus Professor Denison Campbell-Allen
• Professor Raymond John Chambers
• Emeritus Professor W J Moore
• Emeritus Professor Michael George Pitman
• Emeritus Professor Thomas Stapleton
• Emeritus Professor Yao Tseng Tchan

1984

• Emeritus Professor Henry Jacob (Jack) Cowan
• Emeritus Professor Alexander Elliott Jenkins
• Emeritus Professor Henry Mayer
• Emeritus Professor Charles Brian Anthony McCusker

1985

• Emeritus Professor David Hugh Neville Johnson
• Emeritus Professor Bernard Yarnton Mills
• Emeritus Professor William Loutit (Bill) Morison
• Emeritus Professor Terence James Robinson

1986

• Emeritus Professor John Makepeace Bennett
• Emeritus Professor Rex Milton Butterfield
• Emeritus Professor David Agar Cameron
• Emeritus Professor Arthur John Dunston
• Emeritus Professor Peter Lawrence
• Emeritus Professor Ross Waite Parsons
• Emeritus Professor Donald Spearitt

1987

• Emeritus Professor William (Liam) Burke
• Emeritus Professor Richard Annells Champion
• Emeritus Professor Kenneth Wollaston Cleland
• Emeritus Professor Neville Collis-George
• Emeritus Professor David A Ferguson
• Emeritus Professor Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
• Emeritus Professor Harry Messel
• Emeritus Professor M G C Mullins
• Emeritus Professor Gino Lorenzo Rizzo
• Emeritus Professor Harry Leslie Rogers

1988

• Emeritus Professor Ronald A Anderson
• Emeritus Professor R N Johnson
• Emeritus Professor Mark Jolly
• Emeritus Professor Patrick Harding Lane
• Emeritus Professor Noel Desmond Martin
• Emeritus Professor Thomas Smith Reeve
• Emeritus Professor John Frederick Turner
• Emeritus Professor Thomas Robert Watson

1989

• Emeritus Professor Alexander Cambitoglou
• Emeritus Professor Ernest Finckh
• Emeritus Professor Clifford Harold Gallagher
• Emeritus Professor Noel Sydney Hush
• Emeritus Professor D Joseph
• Emeritus Professor Dame Leonie J Kramer
• Emeritus Professor Phillip Ley
• Emeritus Professor Gerald White Milton
• Emeritus Professor Peter Platt
• Emeritus Professor D A Titchen
• Emeritus Professor John Manning Ward

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1990

• Emeritus Professor Ivan Peter Barko
• Emeritus Professor Graeme A Bird
• Emeritus Professor Gordon Elliott (Tim) Wall
• Emeritus Professor John Basil Hennessy
• Emeritus Professor Brian Dale Hingston Latter
• Emeritus Professor Hugo Karl Messerle
• Emeritus Professor Douglas William Piper
• Emeritus Professor John A Thomson
• Emeritus Professor Richard Vernon Stafford Wright

1991

• Emeritus Professor Donald Thomas Anderson
• Emeritus Professor David M Armstrong
• Emeritus Professor Richard Spencer Butler Gye
• Emeritus Professor William Ritchie
• Emeritus Professor John Philip Sutcliffe
• Emeritus Professor Michael Gleeson Taylor

1993

• Emeritus Professor Samuel Ball

1994

• Emeritus Professor Ernest Frank Annison
• Emeritus Professor Charles Bridges-Webb
• Emeritus Professor Maurice T Daly
• Emeritus Professor Marshall J Edwards
• Emeritus Professor Gregory Maxwell (Max) Kelly
• Emeritus Professor Bruce G Thom
• Emeritus Professor Clifford Turney
• Emeritus Professor Gero Von Wilpert

1995

• Emeritus Professor Peter Castaldi
• Emeritus Professor Susan Evelyn Dorsch
• Emeritus Professor K Knox

1996

• Emeritus Professor Serge Domicelj
• Emeritus Professor James Miles Little
• Emeritus Professor E Sharpe
• Emeritus Professor Gerald Alfred Wilkes

1997

• Emeritus Professor Maxwell Howard Brennan
• Emeritus Professor Neil Buchanan
• Emeritus Professor James Graham McLeod
• Emeritus Professor Murray G Wells

1998

• Emeritus Professor Alan David Crown
• Emeritus Professor Hans Charles Freeman
• Emeritus Professor Colin Phegan
• Emeritus Professor Rudolf (Rolf) George Prince
• Emeritus Professor Sever Sternhell
• Emeritus Professor Walter Charles Taylor
• Emeritus Professor Peter Robert Wilson

1999

• Emeritus Professor Derek John Anderson
• Emeritus Professor Keith Campbell
• Emeritus Professor Brian Fletcher
• Emeritus Professor Angus Martin
• Emeritus Professor R Lynette Russell
• Emeritus Professor Frederick Stephens
• Emeritus Professor Nicholas S Trahair
• Emeritus Professor Arthur Stuart Truswell
• Emeritus Professor G P (Peter) Webber

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2000

• Emeritus Professor John West Chudleigh
• Emeritus Professor John Ross Egerton
• Emeritus Professor Akos Zoltan Gyory
• Emeritus Professor G Markus

2001

• Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Berry
• Emeritus Professor Michal Bryden
• Emeritus Professor Giovanni Carsaniga
• Emeritus Professor Richard Collins
• Emeritus Professor Alan Craswell
• Emeritus Professor David Harland
• Emeritus Professor Paul Crittenden
• Emeritus Professor John Davis
• Emeritus Professor Kerry John Goulston
• Emeritus Professor Peter Diderik Groenwegen
• Emeritus Professor Warren Hogan
• Emeritus Professor Charles Baldwin Kerr
• Emeritus Professor James Roland Lawrence
• Emeritus Professor Stuart Rees
• Emeritus Professor Peter Sculthorpe
• Emeritus Professor Ann Elizabeth Sefton
• Emeritus Professor Ainslie Glenister Ross Sheil
• Emeritus Professor Thomas Kinman Fardon Taylor
• Emeritus Professor Robert Gerard Milton Wake
• Emeritus Professor Michael Wilding
• Emeritus Professor Peter Worsley

2002

• Emeritus Professor John Chalmers
• Emeritus Professor L Michael Koder
• Emeritus Professor Don Marshall
• Emeritus Professor William H McCarthy
• Emeritus Professor Russell A Meares
• Emeritus Professor Wai-On Phoon
• Emeritus Professor Harry G Poulos
• Emeritus Professor Douglas Saunders

2003

• Emeritus Professor Kenneth John Eltis
• Emeritus Professor Ian Douglas Hume
• Emeritus Professor Anthony William Derek Larkum
• Emeritus Professor Keith Lester
• Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod
• Emeritus Professor Donald H Napper
• Emeritus Professor Vicki A Reed
• Emeritus Professor Terry Smith
• Emeritus Professor Virginia Spate
• Emeritus Professor Alice Erh-Soon Tay
• Emeritus Professor John R Turtle
• Emeritus Professor John Atherton Young

2004

• Emeritus Professor John Richard Green
• Emeritus Professor Roslyn L Pesman
• Emeritus Professor Eugene Seneta
• Emeritus Professor Ivan A Shearer
• Emeritus Professor Anthony Stephens
• Emeritus Professor Frederick Teiwes
• Emeritus Professor D Murray Walker
• Emeritus Professor David Weisbrot

2005

• Emeritus Professor Barry Baker
• Emeritus Professor Robert William Bilger
• Emeritus Professor Bettina Cass
• Emeritus Professor Hugh Clarke
• Emeritus Professor Trevor Cole
• Emeritus Professor Brian R H Farrow
• Emeritus Professor Brian Deverall
• Emeritus Professor Len Lindoy
• Emeritus Professor Paddy Patterson
• Emeritus Professor Grant Steven

2006

• Emeritus Professor Ross Barnetson
• Emeritus Professor Robert Bartels
• Emeritus Professor Antony Basten
• Emeritus Professor Robert Boakes
• Emeritus Professor Yvonne Cossart
• Emeritus Professor Ian Curthoys
• Emeritus Professor David Fraser
• Emeritus Professor David Kemp
• Emeritus Professor Gordon MacAuley
• Emeritus Professor Kim Oates
• Emeritus Professor Reuben Rose
• Emeritus Professor John Uther

2007

• Emeritus Professor David Henderson-Smart
• Emeritus Professor Laurence Mather
• Emeritus Professor Gary T Moore
• Emeritus Professor Frank Nicholas
• Emeritus Professor Jim Petrie
• Emeritus Professor Christopher Tennant
• Emeritus Professor Garry Trompf
• Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Webby

2008

• Emeritus Professor Diane J Austin-Broos
• Emeritus Professor Frank Billson
• Emeritus Professor Bernhard (Ben) Boer
• Emeritus Professor Gavin Brown
• Emeritus Professor Peter Butt
• Emeritus Professor Richard Charteris
• Emeritus Professor Rifaat Ebied
• Emeritus Professor Gareth Evans
• Emeritus Professor Clive Harper
• Emeritus Professor Roger Houghton
• Emeritus Professor Allan Marett
• Emeritus Professor Chisholm Maxwell
• Emeritus Professor Nerida Newbigin
• Emeritus Professor John Pollard
• Emeritus Professor Geoff Sherington
• Emeritus Professor Ronald Anthony Skurray
• Emeritus Professor Frank Benjamin Tipton

2009

• Emeritus Professor Paul Canfield
• Emeritus Professor Margaret Clunies Ross
• Emeritus Professor Gregory Hancock
• Emeritus Professor Alan J Husband
• Emeritus Professor Russell Lansbury
• Emeritus Professor Jocalyn Lawler
• Emeritus Professor Iain Mason
• Emeritus Professor Trevor Parmenter
• Emeritus Professor John Robinson
• Emeritus Professor John Small
• Emeritus Professor Antony James Underwood
• Emeritus Professor Linda Weiss

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2010

• Emeritus Professor Hilary Astor
• Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Barton
• Emeritus Professor Shalom I (Charlie) Benrimoj
• Emeritus Professor Hans G L Coster
• Emeritus Professor Richard Dunn
• Emeritus Professor Michael Field
• Emeritus Professor Michael Jackson
• Emeritus Professor Graham Johnston
• Emeritus Professor Warren Julian
• Emeritus Professor Margaret Sankey
• Emeritus Professor Rodney Tiffen

2011

• Emeritus Professor Penny Gay
• Emeritus Professor Mitchell Guss
• Emeritus Professor Ivan Kennedy
• Emeritus Professor Ronald C McCallum
• Emeritus Professor Robert Ouvrier

2012

• Emeritus Professor Norbert Berend, MD BS Sydney, FRACP
• Emeritus Professor Terry Carney, LLB Melbourne PhD Monash DipCrim Melbourne
• Emeritus Professor Roger Alan Loftus Dampney, BSc PhD DSc Sydney
• Emeritus Professor Graeme W Dean, MEc Sydney, FCPA TIA
• Emeritus Professor William Rea Gibson, MD BS Lond, FRCS FRACS
• Emeritus Professor Regina Graycar, LLB (Hons) Adel LLM Harv
• Emeritus Professor Brian Haynes, BE PhD UNSW, FIChemE FIEAust CPEng
• Emeritus John Dyson Heydon, BA Sydney BCL MA Oxf
• Emeritus Professor Leo Jeffcott, MA Camb BVetMed PhD
  Lond DVSc Melbourne VetMedDr Uppsala, FRCVS
• Emeritus Professor Philip William Kuchel, BMedSc MB BS Adel PhD ANU DSc Cluj-Napoca, FAA
• Emeritus Professor Robert Alexander McIntosh, MScAgr PhD
• Emeritus Professor Basil Don Roufogalis, MPharm PhD DSc Sydney MPS
• Emeritus Professor Allan Snyder
• Emeritus Professor Frank Stillwell, BSc S'ton PhD Reading GradDip(Higher Education)
• Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs, LLB Melb LLM SM PhD Melb
• Emeritus Professor Robert Graham Walker, BCom UNSW MEc PhD Sydney
• Emeritus Professor Richard Waterhouse, BA Sydney MA PhD JohnsH, FAHA FASSA
• Emeritus Professor Peter Wolnizer, BEc Tas MEc PhD Sydney FCA FCPA

2013

• Emeritus Professor John Clark, BA Lancaster Postgraduate Certificate in Fine Art Croydon Coll PhD Sheffield, CIHA FAHA
• Emeritus Professor Judith (Jude) Leslie Irwin, BSW UNSW MA Macquarie PhD Sydney
• Emeritus Professor Robert Minasian, BE PhD Melb MSc UCL
• Emeritus Professor Christopher Moran, BSc Sydney PhD ANU
• Emeritus Professor Adrian Pagan, BEc(Hons I) Qld PhD ANU
• Emeritus Professor Ross Smith, MB BS MD UNSW, FRACS