David Paver Mellor (1903–80) was a physical inorganic chemist of significant influence in coordination chemistry and chemical education in Australia. He retired in 1970 after a brief appointment as dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of New South Wales, having been head of the School of Chemistry there for more than a decade. Mellor had been appointed to the staff of the University of Sydney in 1929 and was one of the first Australians to use X-ray diffraction techniques for the determination of crystal structures. In 1936 he applied for a year of leave to work with Linus Pauling at the California Institute of Technology, particularly to learn more about crystal structure analysis. On sabbatical leave he spent a period of one year across 1937–8 in California where he carried out work on X-ray diffraction in Linus Pauling’s laboratory. Two 1939 articles in Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie appeared under his sole authorship as contributions from the California Institute of Technology. Perhaps more significantly, he published a 1938 Journal of the American Chemical Society paper with Charles D. Coryell on the magnetic properties of manganese(II) and cobalt(II) dipyridine chlorides. Mellor returned to Australia fired with enthusiasm for magnetochemistry. He built a magnetic balance and published many papers on the magnetic properties of coordination compounds with collaborators and students. Australian coordination chemistry has a strong tradition in magnetochemistry and that tradition started with Mellor’s work at the University of Sydney.

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加州理工学院的大卫·梅勒 (David Mellor)，1937-8 年，澳大利亚磁化学的开端

David Paver Mellor (1903–80) 是一位物理无机化学家，在澳大利亚的配位化学和化学教育方面具有重大影响。在短暂任命为新南威尔士大学理学院院长后，他于 1970 年退休，并在那里担任化学学院院长十多年。梅勒于 1929 年被任命为悉尼大学的教职员工，是最早使用 X 射线衍射技术确定晶体结构的澳大利亚人之一。1936 年，他申请休假一年，在加州理工学院与 Linus Pauling 一起工作，特别是学习更多关于晶体结构分析的知识。1937-8 年休假期间，他在加利福尼亚度过了一年时间，在那里他在 Linus Pauling 的实验室进行 X 射线衍射研究。Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 上的两篇 1939 年文章作为加州理工学院的贡献以他的唯一作者身份出现。也许更重要的是，他在 1938 年与 Charles D. Coryell 共同发表了美国化学学会杂志关于锰（II）和钴（II）二吡啶氯化物的磁性的论文。梅勒带着对磁化学的热情回到了澳大利亚。他建立了磁天平，并与合作者和学生发表了许多关于配位化合物磁性的论文。澳大利亚的配位化学在磁化学方面有着悠久的传统，这种传统始于梅勒在悉尼大学的工作。