Biographical entry Macbeth, Alexander Killen (1889 - 1957)

Summary

Alexander Killen Macbeth was Professor of Chemistry, University of Adelaide 1928-54 and Dean of the Faculty of Science. Earlier he was Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, United College University, St Andrews from 1919 and then Reader in Chemistry, University of Durham 1924-8. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) in 1955.

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Alexander Killen Macbeth - Records, 1945 - 1952, MS 010; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details

Online Resources

• 'Macbeth, Alexander Killen - Ms 10', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/basser/manuscript-collection/ms010.html. Details
• 'Macbeth, Alexander Killen', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476132. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_m.html. Details
• Coates, J. H., 'Denis Oswald Jordan 1914-82', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 2, 1985, pp. 237-246. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9850620237.htm. Details