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
Related entries
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
Published resources
Book Sections
- Chalmers, R. O, 'Anderson, Charles (1876-1944), museum director' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 7 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 51-52. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070055b.htm. Details
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
- 'Chalmers, R O', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-631004. Details
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Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 31 January 2024
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