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

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]

Published works

  • Aylward, G. H.; T. J. V. Findlay (1965). SI Chemical Data (1st ed.). Milton, Queensland: John Wiley & Sons Australia. Now in its 6th edition.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "A lunch half a century later". University of New South Wales. 22 March 2004. 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


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