Biographical entry Grant, Kerr (1878 - 1967)

Summary

Kerr Grant was acting Professor of Physics, University of Adelaide 1909-1911 and Professor 1911-1948. he was Chairman of the Optical Munitions Panel 1944-1946. A portrait bust of Grant made by John Dowie is held by the South Australian Institute of Technology where Grant was a President.

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Events

1901

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

1901 - 1902

Career position - Lecturer in Mathematics and Physics at the School of Mines in Ballarat, Victoria

1903

Career position - Worked at Ormond College at the University of Melbourne

1903

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1904

Education - Studied at University of Göttingen in Germany (PhD?)

1905 - 1908

Career position - Lecturer in Natural Philosophy at the University of Melbourne

1909 - 1911

Career position - Acting Professor of Physics at the University of Adelaide

1911 - 1948

Career position - Professor of Physics at the University of Adelaide

1942 - 1958

Career position - President of the South Australian Institute of Technology (formerly School of Mines and Industries)

1944 - 1946

Career position - Chairman of the Optical Munitions Panel

1947

Award - Knight Commander of the Order of Bath (KCB)

Related entries

Archival resources

Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide

• Professor Sir Kerr Grant, 1878-1967 - Papers, c. 1905 - 1967, MS 0075; Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Tomlin, S. G., 'Grant, Sir Kerr (1878-1967)', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 77-79. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090080b.htm. Details
• Tomlin, S. G., 'Sir Kerr Grant (1878-1967), Physicist and Professor', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Physicist, vol. 9, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 77-79. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Obituary: Sir Kerr Grant', Australian Physicist, vol. 4, no. 12, 1967, pp. 209-210. Details

Online Resources

• 'Grant, Kerr', 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/P000449p.htm. Details
• 'Sir Mark Oliphant', a Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/oliphant/oliphant.htm. Details
• 'Grant, Kerr', in The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/people/grant.htm. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Grant, Kerr', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-563401. Details

See also

• Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/scripts/fam-dynindex.php3?EID=P000449. Details
• Bolton, H. C., 'Optical Instruments in Australia in the 1939-45 War: successes and lost opportunities', Australian Physicist, 1990, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/bolton2.htm. Details
• Mellor, D.P., 'Optical Munitions', Chapter 12 in Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 4: Civil, volume 5 'The Role of Science and Industry', Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1958, 1958, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/mellor.htm. Details
• Sherratt, Tim; Condé, Anne-Marie, A Wartime Observatory Observed - the Mount Stromlo Community, 1940-1945, Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1994, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/tps/tps_stromlo_draft.htm. Details