Person
Clunies Ross, William John (1850 - 1914)
- Born
- 31 March 1850
London, England - Died
- 7 November 1914
Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Science educator
Summary
William Clunies Ross taught at technical institutes throughout New South Wales. Some of the subjects he lectured include mineralogy, chemistry, geology, metallurgy, physiography, and geometrical drawing.
Details
Chronology
- 1880
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), King's College, University of London
- 1882 -
- Career position - Fellow, Geological Society (FGS)
- c. 1884
- Life event - Migrated to Australia (Sydney)
- 1885 -
- Career position - Resident Science Master at Bathurst, New South Wales
- 1891
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), ad eundem grandum, University of Sydney
- 1902
- Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus rossii R.T.Baker & H.G.Sm.was named for Ross.
- 1904 -
- Career position - Chief Lecturer in Chemistry and Metallurgy at Sydney Technical College
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Journal Articles
- Clunies Ross, W.J., 'On Modern Methods of Teaching Chemistry', Report of the seventh meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 7 (1898), 333, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15378299. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21539456. Details
- 'Clunies Ross, William John (18500331-19141107)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1466605. Details
See also
- Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 February 2018
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