Person
Hargreaves, William Arthur (1866 - 1959)
- Born
- 29 October 1866
Ipswich, Queensland, Australia - Died
- 31 March 1959
St Peters, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Chemist
Summary
William Hargreaves was Director of the Gordon Technical College, Victoria 1891-1897 when he became Assistant Government Analyst, Queensland Mines Department. From 1899 he was the South Australian Government Analyst and Director of the new Department of Chemistry from 1916.
Details
Chronology
- 1890
- Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Melbourne
- 1891
- Education - Bachelor of Civil Engineering (BCE), University of Melbourne
- 1891 - 1897
- Career position - Director of the Gordon Technical College, Victoria
- 1892
- Education - Master of Arts (MA), University of Melbourne
- 1897 - 1898
- Career position - Assistant Government Analyst, Queensland Mines Department
- 1899 - 1915
- Career position - South Australian Government Analyst
- 1916 -
- Career position - Director, Department of Chemistry, South Australia
- 1916
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Adelaide
- 1916 - 1920
- Career position - Member, State Committee South Australia, Advisory Council of Science and Industry
- 1917
- Career event - Foundation Member, Australian Chemical Institute
- 1919
- Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1927
- Career event - Elected Member (Chemistry), Australian National Research Council
- 1936 - 1950
- Career position - Council member, South Australian School of Mines and Industries
- 1937
- Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
Related entries
Archival resources
State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana
- William Arthur Hargreaves - Records, 1902 - 1955, PRG 64; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details
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
Book Sections
- Farrall, Lyndsay, 'Hargreaves, William Arthur (1866-1959), chemist and government analyst' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 198-199. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090195b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Hargreaves, W. A., 'Explosives, and their safe keeping', South Australian Institute of Engineers: Biennial proceedings 1913 - 1915 (1915), 73-93, https://images.slsa.sa.gov.au/zper/i14966505/zperi14966505_1913-1915.pdf. Details
- Hargreaves, W.A., 'On a Method of Shortening Certain Chemical Calculations', Report of the sixth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 6 (1895), 306-308, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52884180. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21539177. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93727553. Details
- 'Hargreaves, W A (1866-1959)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-581119. Details
Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 29 August 2024
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