Abstract.
I survey highlights of the practice of physics and allied sciences in Melbourne,Australia, from the 1850s, soon after Europeans first settled in the area, to the present. I note recognizable sites of past and current physical-science activity that may be visited, as well as exhibits of historic items of physics apparatus. I trace the role of physics, in the course of a century and a half, in the evolution of a pioneering settlement into a large city embedded in a modern industrial economy.
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Home, R.W. Physics in Melbourne. Phys. perspect. 7, 473–490 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-005-0222-x
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- Melbourne
- University of Monash University
- La Trobe University
- Swinburne University of Technology
- RMIT University
- physics
- astronomy
- meteorology
- time
- magnetism
- nuclear ruling engines
- radiation dosimetry
- physical metrology
- telephony
- aerodynamics
- surface chemical scientific instruments
- electron spectroscopy
- particle solar-terrestrial physics