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Life Summary

Name	Sir Sydney Sunderland
Born	31 December, 1910 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Died	27 August, 1993 (aged 82) Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cause of Death	cancer (lymphoma)
Related Entries	[View as tree] Sunderland, Harry (father) Andrew, Richard Roderick (university friend) Cairns, Hugh William Bell (colleague) Jones, Frederic Wood (mentor)
Education *	Kelvin Grove Boys' State School (Brisbane) (student, 1916-1922) Scotch College (Melbourne) (student, 1922-1925) Brisbane State High School (student, 1927-1929) University of Queensland (student, 1930-1930) University of Melbourne (student, 1931-1935)
Occupation *	academic (1936-1937) Victoria, Australia neurologist (1936-1937) Victoria, Australia university teacher (1936-1937) Victoria, Australia academic (1937-1939) Overseas anatomist (1937-1939) Overseas university teacher (1937-1940) Overseas academic (1940-1975) Victoria, Australia anatomist (1940-1961) Victoria, Australia university administrator (1953-1971) Victoria, Australia neurologist (1961-1975) Victoria, Australia
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1960) Knight Bachelor (recipient, 1971)
Key Events *	Ash Wednesday bushfires (1983) (home owner)
Legacies *	Sunderland Society (for the study of peripheral nerves) (eponym)
Key Organisations *	Australian Academy of Science (fellow, 1954) National Radiation Committee (member, 1957-1964) Australian Universities Commission (member, 1962-1975) Ian Potter Foundation Ltd (governor, 1964-1993) Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (Melbourne) (board member, 1968-1975) Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine (University of Melbourne) (member, 1972-1993)
Workplaces *	University of Melbourne (medicine) (employee, 1936-1937) University of Melbourne (medicine) (academic, 1940-1975)

* Dates are approximate