Prof. P. A. Murphy

Abstract

PAUL ALOYSIUS MURPHY, whose death at the age of fifty-one years occurred on September 27, was born in Co. Kilkenny. After courses at the Albert Agricultural College, Glasnevin, and the Boyal College of Science, Dublin, extending over five years, he was appointed to a temporary post under the Irish Department of Agriculture and started research in plant pathology. Later, with a Development Commission scholarship, he proceeded to the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, and to the K. Biologische Reichsanstalt, in Berlin-Dahlem. Leaving Germany in 1914, and being rejected on medical grounds for active service, he completed his scholarship period at Cornell University. He was then appointed plant pathologist in Prince Edward Island by the Canadian Government. He returned to Ireland in 1921 to similar work in the Department of Agriculture there, and six years later was appointed to the newly created chair of plant pathology in University College, Dublin, which he held until his death.