Person

Woolnough, Walter George (1876 - 1958)

Born
15 January 1876
Brushgrove, New South Wales, Australia
Died
28 September 1958
Northbridge, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Geologist

Summary

Walter Woolnough taught geology at the University of Sydney from 1898 and at the University of Adelaide until 1912. He was the first Professor of Geology, University of Western Australia 1913-1919 and geological advisor to the Commonwealth of Australia 1927-1941.

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Chronology

1913 - 1919
Career position - Professor of Geology, University of Western Australia
1914
Career position - Vice-President, Section C (Geology), British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting
1924
Career event - Elected Member (Geology), Australian National Research Council
1937 -
Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
1937
Career position - President, Section C (Geology), Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
1955
Award - Royal Society of New South Wales Medal

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Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Walter George Woolnough - Records, 1922 - 1924, Uncatalogued MSS set 491; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Walter George Woolnough - Records, 1894 - 1940, MS 4667; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Glover, John; with Bevan, Jenny, The Forgotten Explorers: Pioneer geologists of Western Australia, 1826-1926 (Victoria Park, W.A.: Hesperian Press, 2010), 246 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Branagan, D. F., 'Woolnough, Walter George (1876-1958), geologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 572-573. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120642b.htm. Details
  • Oldroyd, David R., 'Griffith Taylor, Ernest Andrews et al: Early Ideas on the Development of the River Systems of the Sydney Region, Eastern Australia, and Subsequent Ideas on the Associated Geomorphological Problems' in History of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology, Grapes, R. H., Oldroyd, D. R. and Grigelis, A., eds (London: Geological Society, 2008), pp. 241-77. Details

Journal Articles

  • Browne, W. R., 'Obituary: Dr. W. G. Woolnough', Australian Journal of Science, 21 (5) (1958), 135-136. Details
  • Woolnough, W. G., 'Presidential address: Fact and theory in geology, with special reference to petroloeum, salt and coal [Section C - Geology]', Report of the twenty-third meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Auckland meeting, January, 1937 (1937), 80-100. Details

Resources

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