Person

Chalmers, Robert Oliver (1911 - 2006)

Born
12 October 1911
Elgin, Elginshire, Scotland
Died
18 October 2006
late of Haddington Nursing Home, Tenterfield, formerly of Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Geologist and Mineralogist

Summary

Robert Chalmers started work at the Australian Museum in Sydney, as a cadet in 1929 eventually working as the Museum's mineralogist. He was interested in gemstones as minerals; studied the salt crust surface of Lake Eyre; discovered Australite localities and was educated in geology at Sydney Technical College.

Details

Chronology

1929 - 1936
Career position - Scientific Cadet, Australian Museum, New South Wales
1933
Education - Associate, Sydney Technical College (ASTC)
1933
Education - Diploma Geology (hons), Sydney Technical College
1936 - 1948
Career event - Scientific Assistant, Australian Museum, New South Wales
1948 -
Career position - Curator, Australian Museum, New South Wales
1949
Career position - Honorary Abstractor (Geology), Australian Science Abstracts, Australian National Research Council

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Archival resources

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

  • Robert Oliver Chalmers - Records, 1920 - 1977, DeB 993; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

Journal Articles

  • Chalmers, Oliver, 'Minerals in the Australian Museum - 1901 to 1945', Records of the Australian Museum, supplement, 15 (1992), 111-28. Details
  • Chalmers, R. O., 'Thomas Hodge-Smith', Records of the Australian Museum, 21 (7) (1946), 377-9. Details
  • Chalmers, R. O., 'Stories Behind the Museum's Collections', Australian Natural History, 14 (1962), 116-120. Details
  • Chalmers, R. O., 'Captain Cook's Australian Landmarks', Australian Natural History, 16 (8) (1970), 241-288. Details
  • Chalmers, R. O., 'The A. D. Combe mineral collection', Australian Museum Magazine, 9 (5) (1974), 147-8. Details
  • Chalmers, R. O., 'Early Geology: Studies and Sermons', Australian Natural History, 19 (2) (1977), 50-53. Details
  • Chalmers, R. O., 'The history of the Department of Mineralogy, Australian Museum, part 1, 1827-1901', Journal of the Mineralogical Society of New South Wales, 1 (1979), 13-21. Details

Resources

Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes

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