Person

Ampt, Gustav Adolph (1886 - 1953)

Born
19 July 1886
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Died
4 May 1953
Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Chemist

Summary

Gustav Ampt was a demonstrator, lecturer and senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, University of Melbourne 1919-1951. Earlier he was a chemist with the Commonwealth Department of Defence 1908-1918.

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Chronology

1907
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
1908 - 1910
Career position - Instructor (part-time), Chemistry Department, Working Men's College (now the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Melbourne
1908 - 1911
Career position - Chemist, State Explosives Laboratory, Defence Department, Victoria
1911 - 1918
Career position - Chemical Advisers Laboratory, Defence Department, Victoria
c. 1919
Award - F.S. Grimwade Prize for Applied Chemistry
1919 - 1921
Career position - Demonstrator in Chemistry, University of Melbourne
1921 - 1926
Career position - Senior Demonstrator in Chemistry, University of Melbourne
1922
Career event - Elected Associate Member (Chemistry), Australian National Research Council
1927 - 1936
Career position - Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Melbourne
1933 - 1934
Career position - President, Society of Chemical Industry in Victoria
1933 - 1947
Career position - Superintendent of Public Examinations in Melbourne
1936 - 1950
Career position - Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Melbourne

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Archival resources

National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office

  • Gustav Adolph Ampt - Records, 1915; National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • Gustav Adolph Ampt - Records, 1949 - 1950; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Radford, Joan, The Chemistry Department of the University of Melbourne: its contribution to Australian Science, 1854-1959 (Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1978), 314 pp. Details

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See also

  • Legge, J. W.; and Gibson, F., 'Victor Martin Trikojus, 1902-1985', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (4) (1987), 519-531. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9870640519. Details
  • Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia (Melbourne: Defence Science and Technology Organisation, 1995), 267 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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