Jack William Roderick (1913–1990) was

Challis Professor The Challis Professorship are professorships at the University of Sydney named in honour of John Henry Challis, an Anglo-Australian merchant, landowner and philanthropist, whose bequests to the University of Sydney allowed for their establishmen ...

of Civil Engineering at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...

from 1951 until his retirement in 1978. He was born in

Edmonton Edmonton is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Alberta. It is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Central Alberta ...

Alberta Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...

. Originally published in ''Historical Records of Australian Science'', Vol.9, No.3, 1993.

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1913 births 1990 deaths Canadian civil engineers Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Scientists from Edmonton Academic staff of the University of Sydney Canadian emigrants to Australia Challis professor {{Australia-engineer-stub