Biographical entry Hopper, Victor David (1913 - 2005)

Summary

Victor David Hopper was Professor of Physics, RAAF Academy, University of Melbourne 1961-78. He had earlier taught physics at the University of Western Australia 1939 and at the University of Melbourne 1940-61.

Details

Events

1937

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

1938

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

1939

Career position - Lecturer in Physics at the University of Western Australia

1940 - 1947

Career position - Lecturer in Physics at the University of Melbourne

1943

Award - David Syme Research Prize received from the University of Melbourne

1947 - 1957

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

1949

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Melbourne

1957 - 1961

Career position - Reader in Physics at the University of Melbourne

1961 - 1978

Career position - Professor of Physics at the RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) Academy at Point Cook

1961 - 1980

Career position - Dean of university students at the RAAF Academy

1980

Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

• Victor David Hopper - Records, 1940 - 1982; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Newspaper Articles

• Klein, Tony, 'Cosmic researcher whose findings ballooned', The Age (Melbourne), Victor David Hopper obituary, 4 November 2005, p. 12. Details

Online Resources

• 'Hopper, Victor David', 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/P001349p.htm. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Hopper, Victor David', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476112. Details

See also

• 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
• Clarebrough, L. M.; Head, A. K., 'Walter Boas 1904-1982', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 4, 1987, pp. 507-517. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9870640507.htm. Details