Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsAcademics - ScienceHistoryThomas Lyle graduated B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin in 1883 with the highest honours the college could bestow and took out his M.A. in 1887. Virtually assured of a Trinty College Fellowship, he instead accepted an appointment to the Chair of Natural Philosophy at the University of Melbourne comencing in mid-1889. Lyle's research in physics and many papers presented to the Royal Society of Victoria, led to the award of a Sc.D. by his alma mater in 1905. Baldwin Spencer said of him "[he] is the greatest man, scientifically speaking, that we ever had at the University". A damaged knee led to his early retirement in mid-1914. Lyle died at South Yarra on 31 March 1944.
