Wood Jones Prize for Human Structure and Function

Eligibility and selection criteria

Eligibility

The Wood Jones Prize is awarded to the student completing a Human Structure and Function Major in any year who has the highest aggregate score in the core subjects ANAT30007 Human Locomotor Systems and ANAT30008 Viscera and Visceral Systems, combined with the aggregate scores in the best two elective subjects that contribute to the major.

Selection criteria

Selection is based on academic performance in 3rd year subjects contributing to the major.

Conditions

Who was Professor Fred Wood Jones?

Professor Frederick Wood Jones was a Professor in the Department from 1930 to 1937. He was a Polymath and adventurer. After graduating in Medicine in 1904 in London he became medical officer in the Cocos Islands and published on the formation of coral atolls. Then he became anthropologist to the Egyptian Government assisting the famous anatomist, Elliot-Smith.

He was successively Professor of Anatomy in London (1912), Adelaide (1919), in Anthropology in Hawaii (1927), Anatomy again in Melbourne (1930), in Manchester (1937-45) and at the Royal College of Surgeons until 1951. Sydney Sunderland, who succeeded him in Melbourne, was one of his students.

During his period in Melbourne he wrote 80 papers and several books and took a year's leave to become temporary director of Anatomy at the Beijing Union Medical College.

He was an accomplished artist, poet, author of children's books, philosopher, scientist and educator. He once wrote "I would lay down as an inflexible rule that no teacher should find place on the staff of any University unless actively involved in undertaking some intellectual adventure and that, moreover, he is able and willing to take volunteers along with him upon the expedition". He died in 1954.

Professor Fred Wood Jones