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Emeritus Professor Harry Messel (AC CBE BA BSc BMilSc PhD HonDSc   HonDHI) has had a distinguished academic career in institutions such as Queen's University in Kingston in Ontario, St Andrew's University in Scotland, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Dublin, Adelaide University, and as the Chair of Physics at the University of Sydney.

Harry established the Science Foundation for Physics within the University of Sydney in 1954. Over his career he has raised in excess of $100 million through the Science Foundation for Physics to fund valuable research, teaching and learning and to expand the School of Physics. The International Science Schools for High School Students, which he established in 1962, are known worldwide. Harry retired from the School of Physics in 1987 after leading the School for thirty five years.

Harry is Senior Vice-Chairman of the Species Survival Commision (SSC), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a member of the SSC Steering Committee, Chairman of the Crocodile Specialist Group of the Commission, and in 1992 he was appointed Chancellor of Bond University.