Person
Skeats, Ernest Willington (1875 - 1953)
Skeats, Ernest Willington Portrait
Details
- Born
- 1 November 1875
Berais Town, Hampshire, England - Died
- 20 January 1953
Glen Iris, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Geologist and University Administrator
Summary
Ernest Skeats was Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Melbourne 1904-1941, and published widely in the field but with emphasis on petrology and stratigraphy. President of the Royal Society of Victoria 1910-1911.
Details
Portrait of Skeats by Max Meldrum at the University of Melbourne.
Chronology
- 1897 -
- Career position - Demonstrator in Geology, Royal College of Science
- 1899
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of London
- 1899 - 1953
- Career position - Member, Geologists' Association
- 1902
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of London
- 1904 - 1941
- Career position - Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Melbourne
- 1906 - 1953
- Career position - Member of Council, Royal Society of Victoria
- 1909
- Career position - President, Section C (Geology and Mineralogy), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1910 - 1911
- Career position - President, Royal Society of Victoria
- 1910 - 1915
- Career position - Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne
- 1914
- Career position - Local Secretary for Melbourne, Section C (Geology), British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting
- 1919 -
- Career position - Foundation Councillor (Geology), Australian National Research Council
- 1922 - 1924
- Career position - President, Professorial Board, University of Melbourne
- 1924 - 1925
- Career position - President, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
- 1929
- Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1929 - 1953
- Career position - Trustee, Royal Society of Victoria
- 1937
- Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
- 1937
- Award - Mueller Medal, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1941 - 1953
- Career position - Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
- 1952 - 1953
- Award - Honorary Member, Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Ernest Willington Skeats - Records, 1953, MS 041; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies
- Ernest Willington Skeats - Records, 1925 - 1950; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Corporate Records and Archives Strategies. Details
University of Melbourne Museum of Art
- Ernest Willington Skeats - Records, 1941, 0000.44; University of Melbourne Museum of Art. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details
Books
- Skeats, E. W., Some Founders of Australian Geology (Sydney: 1934). Details
Book Sections
- Darragh, Thomas A., 'Skeats, Earnest Willington (1875-1953), geologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 621-622. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110635b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Edwards, A. B., 'Obituary: Ernest Willington Skeats', Australian Journal of Science, 15 (4) (1953), 127-128. Details
- Hills, E. S., 'Ernest Willington Skeats', Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 66 (1-2) (1955), 164-65. Details
- Skeats, Ernest W., 'Obituary: Sir Colin Fraser', Australian Journal of Science, 6 (6) (1944), 176. Details
- Skeats, Ernest Willington; and Summers, H. S., 'The petrological and experimental aspects of the main road problem in Victoria (Lecture & Discussion)', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers vol. XII (1912), 232-240. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24524. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5394016. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/215309142. Details
- 'Skeats, Ernest Willington (1875-1953)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1464505. Details
See also
- Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_s.html. Details
- Currie, George; Graham, John, The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1966), 203 pp, https://ebooks.publish.csiro.au/content/origins-csiro. pages 142, 144. Details
- Hill, Dorothy, 'Edwin Sherbon Hills, 1906-1986', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (1) (1987), 79-95. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9870710079. Details
Digital resources
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
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