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

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(Honours) in Applied Chemistry from the then-new

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. Later he received a MSc from the same university, and continued to teach Analytical Chemistry for 13 years there. 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. Later Aylward joined

Macquarie University Macquarie University ( ) is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of S ...

as Associate Professor and worked from 1970 till his retirement in 2005 in developing countries as a Science Education consultant for

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, then for the

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and finally as a freelance Senior Science Education Advisor.

Published works

* Now in its 6th edition.

References

Australian chemists Science teachers Australian textbook writers Australian science writers University of New South Wales alumni Academic staff of the University of New South Wales Academic staff of Macquarie University Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{chemist-stub