Hartung, Ernst Johannes (1893 - 1979)

Summary

Ernst Hartung was Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Melbourne 1919-1924, an Associate Professor 1924-1927 and Professor 1927-1954. He chaired the Advisory Committee on Optical Munitions during World War II and led the research into the production of optical glass. Hartung is commemorated by the Hartung Youth Lectures of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.

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Chronology

1913

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne

1914 - 1919

Career position - Tutor at Trinity College, University of Melbourne

1919

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Melbourne

1919 - 1924

Career position - Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Melbourne

1922

Career event - Elected Associate Member (Chemistry), Australian National Research Council

1924 - 1927

Career position - Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Melbourne

1926

Award - David Syme Research Prize, University of Melbourne

1927 - 1933

Career position - President, Australian Chemical Institute (three non-consecutive terms)

1927 - 1954

Career position - Professor of Chemistry, University of Melbourne

1930

Career event - Elected Member (Chemistry), Australian National Research Council

1930

Career position - President, Section B (Chemistry), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

Related entries

Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Ernst Johannes Hartung - Records, 1940 - 1942; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Exhibition Papers, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/exhib_papers.htm. Details
• The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/omp.htm. Details

Book Sections

• Weickhardt, L. W., 'Hartung, Ernst Johannes (1893-1970), Professor of Chemistry and Astronomer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 14: 1940 - 1980 Di-Kel, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. 405-406. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140463b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Ernst Johannes Hartung', Uni News, 11 (17) (2003), 4. Details
• Radford, J. T., 'Ernst Johannes Hartung 1893-1979', Chemistry in Australia, 46 (1979), 219-20. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537494. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/271017817. Details
• 'Hartung, E J (1893-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-852782. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Hartung, Ernst Johannes', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000481p.htm. Details
• 'Hartung, Ernst Johannes', in The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/people/hartung.htm. Details

See also

• Bolton, H. C., 'Optical Instruments in Australia in the 1939-45 War: successes and lost opportunities', Australian Physicist (1990). http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/bolton2.htm. Details
• Davies, Susan, 'R. v.d. R. Wooley in Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (1) (1984), 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9840610059. Details
• Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details
• Hyde, B. G.; and Day, P, 'John Stuart Anderson', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (2) (1992), 127-49. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920920127. Details
• Mellor, D.P., 'Optical Munitions', Chapter 12 in Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 4: Civil, volume 5 'The Role of Science and Industry', Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1958 (1958). http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/mellor.htm. Details
• Rees, A. L. G., 'Ian William Wark 1899-1985', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (4) (1987), 533-548. https://doi.org/10.1071HR9870640533. Details
• Sherratt, Tim; Condé, Anne-Marie, A Wartime Observatory Observed - the Mount Stromlo Community, 1940-1945, Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1994, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/tps/tps_stromlo_draft.htm. Details
• Walsh, A.; and Willis, J. B., 'Albert Lloyd George Rees 1916-1989', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (1) (1992), 31-47. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920910031. Details
• Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia (Melbourne: Defence Science and Technology Organisation, 1995), 267 pp. Details