Dr. George A. Baird
Dr George Alexander Baird (1939-1997) served with distinction as Secretary to Academic Council at Queen's from 1985 until 1997. Dr Baird graduated with a physics degree from Queen's University in 1960, followed by an MSc from the University of Waterloo in 1962 and a PhD from the University of Alberta in 1966. He held the posts of ICI Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at University College Dublin, before taking up a temporary appointment as Research Associate and Assistant Professor at the Simon Frazer University, British Columbia. Following his return to University College Dublin, he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Science in 1976.