[Papers]. 1909-1967.

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[Papers]. 1909-1967.

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Correspondence, reports, notebooks, diaries, photographs and other papers relating to the career of Kerr Grant as Professor of Physics at the University of Adelaide and his involvement with other scientific and research organisations including CSIR, the Commonwealth Meteorological Bureau, the South Australian School of Mines, the ANRC and the Scientific Instruments and Optical Panel of the Ministry of Munitions. Also correspondence with colleagues including W.E. Cooke, Hedley Marston, Sir Mark Oliphant and the Government Astronomer; notebooks and diaries, lecture notes, articles and reprints, reports on the work of the Physics department and individual staff and departmental letter books.

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