Gordon Aylward

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Gordon Hillis Aylward is an Australian chemical author. He is known for writing the SI Chemical Data book.

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Biography

Aylward graduated on 20 May 1952 with a BSc (Honours) in Applied Chemistry from the then-new University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. [1] [2] Later he received a MSc from the same university, and continued to teach Analytical Chemistry for 13 years there. [3] During that period he organized the Approach to Chemistry summer schools, together with his co-teacher dr Tristan Findlay. To support the course, they wrote the book SI Chemical Data as the textbook. [3]

Later Aylward joined Macquarie University as Associate Professor and worked from 1970 till his retirement in 2005 in developing countries as a Science Education consultant for UNESCO, then for the World Bank and finally as a freelance Senior Science Education Advisor. [3]

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References

  1. "A lunch half a century later". University of New South Wales. 22 March 2004. Archived from the original on 29 July 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2008.
  2. "The university's first graduates". University of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 27 July 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2008.
  3. 1 2 3 "Product Information SI Chemical Data". Booktopia. Retrieved 7 May 2008.
  4. Aylward, G. H; Findlay, T. J. V. (Tristan John Victor) (2008), SI chemical data (6th ed.), John Wiley & Sons Australia, ISBN   978-0-470-81638-7