Cultural Object

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation (2021 - )

From
2021
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Functions
Data Registry and History and Philosophy of Science
Alternative Names
  • EOAS (Acronym)
Website
https://www.eoas.info/index.html
Location
Swinburne University of Technology, John St, Hawthorn, Vic. 23122.

Summary

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Technology is an online register of people, corporations, research institutions, scientific societies and other organisations that have contributed to Australia's scientific, technological and medical heritage. It also includes awards and prizes; journals; innovations, inventions and significant cultural objects; and events and scientific expeditions. An integral part of the Encyclopedia is the published resources section, which has details of works relating to the history Australian science and technology, in any published form including on-line. The Bibliography of the history of Australian science, an annual compilation of newly-published works on the history of Australian science and technology, is an output of this section. The Encyclopedia is a constituent part of the Office of the Chief Scientist, Swinburne University of Technology, and the successor to the Encyclopedia of Australian Science.

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Timeline

 1994 - 2010 Bright Sparcs
 1999 - 2010 Australian Science at Work
       2010 - 2020 Encyclopedia of Australian Science
             2021 - Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

Related People

Helen Cohn

Created: 9 June 2026

EOAS ID: biogs/P008060b.htm

This Edition: 2026 May - New Office
Chunnup - Gariwerd calendar - Winter: late May to end of July - season of cockatoos
Reference: https://www.bom.gov.au/resources/indigenous-weather-knowledge/indigenous-seasonal-calendars/gariwerd-calendar#bom-anchor-list__item-chunnup-season-of-cockatoos

Publisher: Swinburne University of Technology.

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
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What do we mean by this?

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P008060b.htm

For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260