MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

MS 218

WILLIAM HAYES
1913-1994

Physician, microbiologist and geneticist. Hayes made major contributions in the field of genetics and molecular biology through the study of Salmonella, E. coli and sexuality in bacteria. He established research groups at Hammersmith Hospital in London and then at the University of Edinburgh and became Professor of Genetics at the Research School of Biological Sciences of the Australian National University in 1974. He later became Emeritus Professor in the Department of Botany.
He was the author of the influential book The Genetics of Bacteria and their Viruses, 1964.

Material collected and annotated by Bruce Holloway, co-author of Hayes’ biographical memoir:
http://www.science.org.au/academy/memoirs/hayes.htm

218/1

1 CV, list of publications and ‘Personal Record of Fellow – Autobiographical Notes’

2 Correspondence 1995-1996 from Hayes’ widow Nora to Holloway and biographical notice from her funeral service by the Hayes’ son Michael

3 Correspondence 1994-1996 Holloway on the death of Hayes and the preparation of his biographical memoir

4 Obituaries

5 Photograph of Hayes (scanned black and white image)

6 Miscellaneous manuscripts, papers and fragments: ‘Accident or Design in Biological Discovery?;’ ‘The Molecular Basis of Evolution;’ ‘Stable and Unstable dar Alleles of Phycomyces’ Hayes and Delbrück 1980; ‘Genetics as a tool to understand structure and function’ (Foreword to Molecular biology of symbiotic nitrogen fixation, ed P M Gresshoff, Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c1990); notes for seminars; study leave reports; ‘The Social and Ethical Repercussions of Genetic Engineering’

7 Miscellaneous documents: copies from Research School of Biological Sciences ANU newsletters; correspondence; University of London Royal Postgraduate Medical School pamphlet 1985 ‘Congregation for the Conferment of Fellowships’ speeches; biographical articles; correspondence Nora to Holloway 1994

[box not full, 7cm]