12 Facts About Ann Moyal

Ann Veronica Helen Moyal was an Australian historian known for her work in the history of science.

Ann Moyal held academic positions at the Australian National University, New South Wales Institute of Technology, and Griffith University, and later worked as an independent scholar.

Ann Moyal grew up in Sydney, but was sent to Canberra High School for her final year of secondary schooling.

Ann Moyal graduated Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours from the University of Sydney, and was awarded a scholarship to the University of London.

Ann Moyal checked sources and wrote drafts, working with him at his London penthouse, his country estate Cherkley Court, and his villa at Cap-d'Ail, France.

Ann Moyal left the dictionary in 1962 to become a research associate at the Australian Academy of Science and the ANU Research School of Social Sciences.

Ann Moyal was a science editor with University of Chicago Press and from 1972 lectured at the New South Wales Institute of Technology.

Ann Moyal was a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales and elected an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1997.

Ann Moyal was appointed Member of the Order of Australia in 1993 for her "contribution to the history of Australian science and technology especially the writing of its history", and received the Centenary Medal.

Ann Moyal was awarded honorary Doctor of Letters degrees from ANU and the University of Sydney.

The inaugural Ann Moyal Lecture was given by cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell on 8 May 2023 at the National Library of Australia and will be an annual event.

Ann Moyal married three times: to Michael Cousins in 1951, to Colonel Everest Mozley in 1957, and to mathematician Jose Enrique Ann Moyal in 1962.