Professor Alexander Killen Macbeth
Professor of chemistry
- Born
- 11 August 1889, Belfast, Ireland
- Died
- 28 May 1957, Adelaide, South Australia
- Sex
- Male
- Father
- William Macbeth (butcher and merchant)
- Mother
- Sarah Ann Guy
- Married Edyth Helena Patricia Macafee (daughter of The Revd Andrew Macafee, Presbyterian min)
Degrees
| 1928 | Doctor of Science (ad eundum gradum) | The University of Adelaide |
Career
- DSc QUI c1918.
- FAA 1955.
- Reader in Chemistry, Dunelm 1924-28.
- Arrived in SA 1928.
- Angas Prof of Chemistry, UAdel 1928-54 (Emeritus Prof 1955), Dean of Science.
- Consultant to pharmaceutical mfrs.
- CMG 1946.