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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 1999-12-15 human Ailie Smith updated 2026-04-28 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000010b.htm corporateBody School of Chemistry The University of Melbourne AACR2 1880s Start Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Location Melbourne, Victoria Education Industrial or Scientific Research The School of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne was founded in the nineteenth century. The first lectures in chemistry were given in 1856, just three years after the foundation of the University. In 2002 the School has over 3000 undergraduates enrolled in courses and around 25 permanent academic staff members. Steele, Bertram Dillon (1870 - 1931)

Lecturer in Chemistry 1906 - 1910

 Ampt, Gustav Adolph (1886 - 1953)

Demonstrator, lecturer and senior lecturer 1919-1951.

 Solomon, David Henry (1929 - )

Head of School of Chemistry, and ICI Australia Masson Professor of Chemistry 1990 - 1994

 Anderson, John Stuart (1908 - 1990)

Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Head of Department 1954 to 1959

 Adams, Bronwyn Jane (1950 - 1999)

Executive Manager 1991 - 1993

 Rubinstein, Gertrude (1918 - )

Demonstrator (later Senior Demonstrator) 1940 - 1943

 Nelson, Eva (1923 - 2019)

Demonstrator (part-time) c.1976 1986

 Robson, Richard (1937 - )

On staff from 1966

 Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne (1903 - )

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