Biographical entry Ampt, Gustav Adolph (1886 - 1953)

Summary

Gustav Ampt was a demonstrator, lecturer and senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, University of Melbourne 1919-1951. Earlier he was a chemist with the Commonwealth Department of Defence 1908-1918.

Details

Events

1907

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1908 - 1910

Career position - Instructor (part-time) with the Chemistry Department at the Working Men's College (now the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Melbourne

1908 - 1911

Career position - Chemist at the State Explosives Laboratory of the Defence Department of Victoria

1911 - 1918

Career position - Chemical Advisers Laboratory of the Defence Department of Victoria

c. 1919

Award - F.S. Grimwade Prize for Applied Chemistry received

1919 - 1921

Career position - Demonstrator in Chemistry at the University of Melbourne

1921 - 1926

Senior Demonstrator in Chemistry at the University of Melbourne

1927 - 1936

Career position - Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Melbourne

1933 - 1934

Career position - President of the Society of Chemical Industry in Victoria

1933 - 1947

Career position - Superintendent of Public Examinations in Melbourne

1936 - 1950

Career position - Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Melbourne

Archival resources

National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office

• Gustav Adolph Ampt - Records, 1915; National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office. Details

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Gustav Adolph Ampt - Records, 1949 - 1950; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• Radford, Joan, The Chemistry Department of the University of Melbourne: its contribution to Australian Science, 1854-1959, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1978. Details

Book Sections

• Radford, Joan T., 'Ampt, Gustav Adolph (1886-1953)', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 7, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1979, p. 51. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070054b.htm. Details

Online Resources

• 'Ampt, Gustav Adolph', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000010p.htm. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Ampt, Gustav Adolph', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462727. Details

See also

• Legge, J. W. and Gibson, F., 'Victor Martin Trikojus, 1902-1985', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 4, 1987, pp. 519-531. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9870640519.htm. Details
• Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Melbourne, 1995, 267 pp. Details