P001349 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-06-13 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001349b.htm person Hopper Victor David OBE AACR2 12 May 1913 15 July 2005 Place of Birth Wales Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Physicist University Administrator Victor Hopper was Professor of Physics, RAAF Academy, University of Melbourne 1961-1978. He had earlier taught physics at the University of Western Australia 1939 and at the University of Melbourne 1940-1961. 1937 1937 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne 1938 1938 Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne 1939 1939 Career position - Lecturer in Physics, University of Western Australia 1940 1947 Career position - Lecturer in Physics, University of Melbourne 1943 1943 Award - David Syme Research Prize (jointly), University of Melbourne 1947 1957 Career position - Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Melbourne 1949 1949 Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Melbourne 1957 1961 Career position - Reader in Physics, 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 1964 1968 Career position - Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne 1980 1980 Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) RAAF Academy, Point Cook, Royal Australian Air Force (1961 - 1986)

Professor of Physics 1961 -1978; Dean of Students 1961 - 1980

 David Syme Research Prize, The University of Melbourne (1904 - )

Awarded the Prize (jointly) 1943

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

Dean 1964 - 1968

 Optical Munitions Panel (1940 - 1945)

Associated with the Panel, 1940 - 1945, through his work as a researcher in optics at the University of Melbourne [under Professor Thomas Laby]

 Hopper, Victor David

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 'Hopper, Victor David', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hopper, Victor David Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Newspaper Article: Cosmic researcher whose findings ballooned Klein, Tony Cosmic researcher whose findings ballooned Melbourne 2005 The Age 12 Resource Section: Hopper, Victor David Hopper, Victor David Australian Science Archives Project 1995 Physics in Australia to 1945 R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham Book Section: Science was so Much More Exciting: Six Women in the Physical Sciences Rasmussen, Carolyn Science was so Much More Exciting: Six Women in the Physical Sciences Melbourne Text Publishing Company 1993 On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science Farley Kelly 105-131 Edited Book: Who's who in Australia 1995 Who's who in Australia 1995 31st Melbourne Information Australia Group 1995 Journal Article: Walter Boas 1904-1982 Clarebrough, L. M.; Head, A. K. Walter Boas 1904-1982 1987 Historical Records of Australian Science 6 4 507-517 Journal Article: Optical Instruments in Australia in the 1939-45 War: successes and lost opportunities Bolton, H. C. Optical Instruments in Australia in the 1939-45 War: successes and lost opportunities Melbourne Australian Science Archives Project 1990 Bright Sparcs Exhibition Papers Victor David Hopper - Records The University of Melbourne Archives Victor David Hopper - Records 1940 - 1982 Papers and photographs relating to work commenced with T.H. Laby and leading to Hopper's paper 'The electronic charge and the oil drop method' (1949); correspondence concerning cosmic ray research and balloon flying; published papers; photographs and lantern slides; optical glass sample; overall dates c1940-80 [1.8 m]. 1.8 m Objects, Photographs