Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- William Percy Wilkinson: analytical chemist, ampelographer and provocateur
- In
- Chemistry in Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 2017, March, 2017, p. 33
- Url
- https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.682207420902073
- Subject
- History of Natural Sciences Physical Sciences
- Abstract
Percy Wilkinson was an important figurei n the early days of Australian chemistry,who has been largely ignored by historians of Australian science. In our centenary year, this obituary belatedly recognises his contribution.William Percy Wilkinson, analytical chemist, ampelographer and provocateur,was born on 13 May 1868 in Cathkin,Victoria, and died in Melbourne on 14 March 1947. His parents were William Wilkinson, a manager of a sheep station near Cathkin, and Bessie Percy Wilkinson. . . .
He was intensely interested in wines and winemaking and in 1901 publishedhis first book Studies on wine-sterilizing machines. He published papers on ampelography, which is the field of botany concerned with the identification and classification of grapevines, and he predicted the controversy about the names of wine in his fourth and final book, The nomenclature of Australian wines: in relation to historical commercialusage of European wine names,international conventions for theprotection of industrial property, andrecent European commercial treaties, published in 1919.
- Source
- cohn 2017
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Corporate Bodies
- Department of Trade and Customs, Commonwealth of Australia (1901 - 1956)
- State Committee Victoria, Advisory Council of Science and Industry (1916 - 1920)