Papers of Phillip Garth Law. 1870-1999.

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Papers of Phillip Garth Law. 1870-1999.

The collection includes personal papers and papers relating to Law's career as an academic, his work with ANARE and other research. They include diaries, drafts for lectures, talks, articles and books, photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks, fieldnotes, video tapes, papers relating to Law's biography by Kathleen Ralston, Law's recordings of cosmic rays and papers of his wife, Nel Law. The correspondents include N. Hudson, P.H. Karmel, A.S. Buchanan, G.J. Allen, J.K. Davis, John Bechervaise, Sir Archibald Grenfell Price, Sir Mark Oliphant, Lord Casy, W. Lorimer, G. Robin, D. Styles, F. Jacka, Sir Douglas Mawson, G.M. Budd and Sir Rupert Hamer.

14.6 m (78 boxes and 7 folio boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7035253

Libraries Australia

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Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition.

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Law, P. G. (Phillip Garth), 1912-2010

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Philip Law was leader of Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions, 1949-1966 and Director of the Antarctic Division, Department of External Affairs. Chairman of the Australian National Committee on Antarctic Research from 1966-1980. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225787701 Scientist and Antarctic explorer. Lecturer of physics, University of Melbourne (1943-48), leader of the Australian National Antarctic Rese...