Briggs, George Henry (1893 - 1987)

Articles

• Sherratt, Tim, '"A physicist would be best out of it" - George Briggs and the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission', Voices, vol. Autumn, 1993. (Also available at http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/tps/tps_briggs_and_unaec.htm) [ Details ]

• Sherratt, Tim, 'Political Fallout: Australian Scientists and the Atomic Bomb', Australasian Science, vol. Spring, 1996. (Also available at http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_fallout.htm) [ Details ]

Journal Articles

• 'Honorary Fellow: G.H. Briggs', Australian Physicist, vol. 1, no. 6, 1964, p. 87. [ Details ]

• Briggs, G. H.; Burgmann, V. D., 'Obituary: John Edward Thompson', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 18, no. 1, 1955, p. 22. [ Details ]

• Paterson, M. S., 'John Conrad Jaeger 1907-1979', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 5, no. 3, 1982, pp. 64-88. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9820530064.htm) [ Details ]

• Piddington, John Hobart, 'Ronald Gordon Giovanelli 1915-84', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 2, 1985, pp. 223-236. (Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9850620223.htm) [ Details ]

• Sherratt, Tim, '"On the beach": Australia's nuclear history', Paper presented at French Worlds, Pacific Worlds Conference, 16 July 1996. (Also available at http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/tps/tps_on_the_beach.htm) [ Details ]

• 'Briggs, George Henry', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000261p.htm. [ Details ]
• 'Briggs, George Henry', in The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/people/briggs.htm. [ Details ]
• Papers of George H. Briggs, National Library of Australia, 2003, http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/8255.html. [ Details ]

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P000261. [ Details ]
• Bolton, H. C., 'Optical Instruments in Australia in the 1939-45 War: successes and lost opportunities', Australian Physicist, 1990, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/bolton2.htm. [ Details ]
• Mellor, D.P., 'Optical Munitions', Chapter 12 in Australia in the War of 1939-1945, Series 4: Civil, volume 5 'The Role of Science and Industry', Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1958, 1958, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/papers/mellor.htm. [ Details ]