{{Short description|New Zealand chemist (1928–2016)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=June 2016}} {{Infobox scientist | name = David Hall | birth_name = | image = David Hall 1985 (cropped).jpg | alt = | caption = Hall in 1985 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|02|15|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|06|15|1928|02|15|df=y}} | death_place = Auckland, New Zealand | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- {{Coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}} --> | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Chemistry, X-ray crystallography | workplaces = University of Auckland<br>University of Alberta | alma_mater = Auckland University College | thesis_title = The crystal structure of formamidoxime | thesis_url = https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/524 | thesis_year = 1954 | doctoral_advisor = John Llewellyn | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = Ted Baker<br>Guy Dodson<br>Joyce Waters<br>Neil Waters | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = FRSNZ <small>(1972)</small> | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | website = <!-- {{URL|www.example.com}} --> | footnotes = | spouse = | children = }} '''David Hall''' (15 February 1928 – 15 June 2016) was a New Zealand chemist, best known as an X-ray crystallographer.
==Biography== A student at Auckland University College, Hall graduated Master of Science in 1950 and a PhD in 1955.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/university11.html |title=NZ university graduates 1870–1961: Ha–He |access-date=19 June 2016}}</ref> The title of his thesis was ''The Crystal Structure of Formamidoxime''.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Hall |first=David |year=1954 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=The Crystal Structure of Formamidoxime |publisher=ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland |hdl=2292/524}}</ref> He was one of the first research students in New Zealand in the area of X-ray crystallography, following the establishment of that research area at Auckland University College by John Llewellyn in 1948.<ref name="SCANZ">{{cite web |url=http://scanz.iucr.org/history/lab-sketches/university-of-auckland |title=University of Auckland |date=May 1996 |publisher=Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand |access-date=19 June 2016 |archive-date=15 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815060640/http://scanz.iucr.org/history/lab-sketches/university-of-auckland |url-status=dead }}</ref> The subject of both his master's and doctoral theses was the crystal structure of formamidoxime.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/UOA2_A:Combined_Local:uoa_alma21159851900002091 |title=The crystal structure of formamidoxime (MSc thesis) |date=1949 |publisher=University of Auckland |access-date=19 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/handle/2292/524 |title=The crystal structure of formamidoxime |date=1954 |publisher=University of Auckland |access-date=19 June 2016}}</ref>
Hall was appointed to the academic staff of the Department of Chemistry at Auckland in 1950,<ref name="History">{{cite book |last1=Cambie |first1=R.C. |author-link1=Richard Conrad Cambie |last2=Davis |first2=B.R. |title=A century of chemistry at the University of Auckland 1883–1983 |url=http://digitool.auckland.ac.nz:1801/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=33024 |access-date=19 June 2016 |year=1983 |publisher=University of Auckland |url-status=dead }}</ref> and following the departure of Llewellyn in 1956, he became head of the crystallography research group.<ref name="SCANZ"/> He was appointed professor and head of the Department of Chemistry at Auckland in 1965, but left to become professor of chemistry at the University of Alberta the following year.<ref name="History"/> However, he returned to Auckland in 1968, and succeeded Peter de la Mare as head of department in 1980,<ref name="History"/> serving in that role until his retirement in 1984, when he was conferred with the title of professor emeritus by the university.<ref>{{cite book | title=University of Auckland Calendar | year=1986 |chapter=Professores emeriti |url=https://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/calendar/archive/1986-calendar.pdf |access-date=19 June 2016 |page=24}}</ref> Hall was appointed chair of the New Zealand University Grants Committee in late 1984.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/nzcardindex/images/cardindexes/nzci/d0188/nzci_d0188c00126.jpg |title=University Grants Committee |date=28 November 1984 |publisher=Auckland Libraries |access-date=19 June 2016}}</ref>
Hall was awarded a DSc by thesis from the University of Auckland in 1969,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/UOA2_A:Combined_Local:uoa_alma21159871150002091 |title=David Hall, DSC thesis |year=1969 |publisher=University of Auckland |access-date=19 June 2016}}</ref> and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1972.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://royalsociety.org.nz/organisation/academy/fellowship/fellows-1919-present/g-i/ |title=The Academy: G–I |publisher=Royal Society of New Zealand |access-date=19 June 2016}}</ref> His doctoral students included Neil Waters,<ref>{{cite book |last=Waters |first=T.N.M. |author-link=Neil Waters |title=The colour isomerism and structure of some copper co-ordination compounds |url=https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/2579/02whole.pdf?sequence=4 |access-date=19 June 2016 |year=1957 |publisher=University of New Zealand |location=Auckland |page=177}}</ref> Guy Dodson,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Tribute: Guy George Dodson (1937–2012) |url=http://www.scientists.org.nz/files/journal/2013-70/NZSR_70_2.pdf |journal=New Zealand Science Review |publisher=New Zealand Association of Scientists |volume=70 |issue=2 |pages=42–43 |doi=10.26686/nzsr.v70.8740 |access-date=19 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122092451/http://scientists.org.nz/files/journal/2013-70/NZSR_70_2.pdf |archive-date=22 January 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Ted Baker.<ref>{{cite book |last=Baker|first=Edward Neill |author-link=Edward Neill Baker |title=Structural studies of some copper(II) coordination compounds |url=https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/2594/02whole.pdf?sequence=4 |access-date=19 June 2016 |year=1967 |publisher=University of New Zealand |location=Auckland |page=178}}</ref>
Hall died at his home in Auckland on 15 June 2016.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://notices.nzherald.co.nz/obituaries/nzherald-nz/obituary.aspx?n=david-hall&pid=180362330 | title=David Hall death notice | date=18 June 2016 | work=New Zealand Herald | access-date=19 June 2016}}</ref>
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