Victorian Genealogy

Finding People and Places in Victoria, Australia.

 


Scientists and Explorers

 

Scientists may have trained at a university. See University Records.

Also see Inventors.

 

RECORDS

 

CSIRO PUBLISHING - HISTORICAL RECORDS OF AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE

https://www.publish.csiro.au/hr

 

ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS - VON MUELLER CORRESPONDENCE PROJECT

The von Mueller Correspondence Project (VMCP) makes available to the public the majority of the surviving correspondence of Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. Mueller was Victoria’s first Government Botanist and the first Director of the Melbourne Botanic Garden.

Mueller’s correspondence is believed to have included over 100,000 letters. The VMCP team has located over 15,000 of these letters, with new items continuing to emerge. These documents have been digitally transcribed, translated into English where written in other languages, annotated and indexed so that they can be searched.

https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/

 

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA - RADAR RESEARCH IN AUSTRALIA DURING WORLD WAR II

The following is Fact Sheet 125 from the National Archives of Australia.

https://www.naa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/fs-125-radar-research-in-australia-during-world-war-ii.pdf

 

EXPLORERS

 

STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA - AGE OF EXPLORATION

This database includes Australian explorers. It is accessible from home available to State Library of Victoria registered Victorian users.

https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma9938037603607636&context=L&vid=61SLV_INST:SLV&lang=en&search_scope=slv_local&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=searchProfile&query=any,contains,age%20of%20exploration

 

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF AUSTRALIA - AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION AND RESEARCH

The following is Fact Sheet 194 from the National Archives of Australia.

https://www.naa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/fs-194-australian-antarctic-exploration-and-research.pdf

 

WEBSITES


ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE AND INNOVATION

A gateway to the history of Australian science, technology, engineering and medicine.

http://www.eoas.info/

 

PHYSICS IN AUSTRALIA TO 1945

This includes a name search for physicists.

http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/phys_con.htm

 

AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE

This includes biographies of the fellows of the academy.

https://www.science.org.au/

 

CSIROPEDIA

This includes notable people employed by the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation).

https://csiropedia.csiro.au/

 

 

 

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