Series 1 - Personal - Biographical


Quantity13 files
ProvenanceAilsa Macvey Swan
Description

Biographical and personal information about Ailsa Swan, including her early career in chemistry and her PhD thesis.


Inventory Listing

1-1 C.V., References, Academic History, esp. 1944-1951

File inscribed 'Ailsa M. Swan, C. V. , References, Academic History, esp. 1944-1951', containing copy of marriage certificate, Ailsa Lowen and John Swan, 1952; copy of birth certificate, Ailsa Macvey Lowen, 17 February 1922; correspondence regarding university education; references from employers; curriculum vitae.

Creator Ailsa Macvey Swan
Date range 1922 - 1952    Quantity 1 file
Formats General Correspondence and CV
Inventory Identifier SWAN00012 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-2 'Kinetics of Nitration Reactions'

Lowen, Ailsa M 1949, 'Kinetics of Nitration Reactions', PhD thesis, University of London.

Creator Ailsa Macvey Swan
Date range 1949    Quantity 1 file
Inventory Identifier SWAN00011 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-3 Reprints

H. Clair Lowen, Sterling D. Taylor, Ailsa M. Swan, and Vincent Du Vigneaud, 'Presence of Glutamine and Asparagine in Enzymatic Hydrolysates of Oxytocin and Vasopressin' in Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1954, volume 87, pp. 550-552.

Dr T. G. Banner, Mrs Margaret E. James, Miss Ailsa M. Lowen and Prof. Gwyn Williams, 'Nitration in Sulfuric Acid' in Nature, volume 163, p. 955, 18 June 1949.

G. M. Bennett, 'Gwyn Williams' in Journal of the Chemical Society, March 1956, pp. 801-804.

Gwyn Williams and Ailsa M. Lowen, 'Nitration in Sulphuric Acid part VI'; Ailsa M. Lowen, M. A. Murray and Gwyn Williams, 'Nitration in Sulfuric Acid part VII'; and M. A. Murray and Gwyn Williams, 'The Ionisation of Triarylcarbinol Indicators in Sulfuric Acid - Water Mixtures' all from Journal of the Chemical Society, November 1950, pp. 3312-3326.

'On the Action of Rain to Calm the Sea' in Fourteenth Volume of the "Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, session 1874-5.

Creator Ailsa Macvey Swan
Date range 1949 - 1956    Quantity 1 file
Formats Published Papers or Articles
Inventory Identifier SWAN00010 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-4 Bubbles

File inscribed 'Bubbles', containing: handwritten notes 'Surface Viscosity'; photograph of laboratory equipment; typed notes 'Physical Chemistry Section, Final Report on the Measurement of Single Bubble Lives at a Liquid Surface by A. M. Lowen'; handwritten notes 'Hydrodynamics'.

Creator Ailsa Macvey Swan
Date range c. 1949 - c. 1951    Quantity 1 file
Formats Loose Notes and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier SWAN00009 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-5 Bubble Dimensions and Draining

File inscribed 'A. M. Swan, Bubble Dimensions and Draining', containing: handwritten notes 'comments on A. Billington's Paper - about Oct '51'; reprints: Lawrence Bragg and W. M. Lomer, 'A dynamical model of a crystal structure II' in Proceedings of the Royal Society, A. volume 196, 1949; W. M. Lomer, 'A dynamical model of a crystal structure III' in Proceedings of the Royal Society, A. volume 196, 1949; W. M. Lomer, 'The forces between floating bubbles and a quantitative study of the 'Bubble Model' of a crystal' in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, volume 45, part 4; M. M. Nicholson, 'Interaction between floating particles' in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, volume 45, part 2; photographs of bubbles; typed and handwritten notes 'Photographs from the side...Elevations'; typed and handwritten notes 'Single bubble at rest beneath the surface of a solution'.

Creator Ailsa Macvey Swan
Date range 1948 - 1959    Quantity 1 file
Formats Published Papers or Articles
Inventory Identifier SWAN00008 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-6 Surface Tension

File inscribed 'Surface Tension, Volume of Bubbles Blown from Capillary, Colour Chart - Film Thickness, Letter to A. S. C. Lawrence', containing handwritten notes, charts and graphs.

Creator Ailsa Macvey Swan
Date range 1948 - 1951    Quantity 1 file
Formats Graphs, Loose Notes and Charts
Inventory Identifier SWAN00007 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-7 Talk to Div. Mtg. on Bubbles

File inscribed 'Talk to Div. Mtg. on Bubbles, Sep 1950', containing 17 pages of typed and handwritten notes.

Creator Ailsa Macvey Swan
Date range September 1950    Quantity 1 file
Formats Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier SWAN00006 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-8 Monthly Reports and Project P.C. 29A

File inscribed 'Monthly Reports and Project P. C. 29A', containing: mounted illustration 'Edge of soap film held in glass ring' [glass is cracked]; typed copies of CSIRO Division of Industrial Chemistry Monthly Reports, numbers 85-97, by A. M. Lowen on Bubble Life Investigations.

Creator Ailsa Macvey Swan
Date range c. 1949 - c. 1951    Quantity 1 file
Formats Reports
Inventory Identifier SWAN00005 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-9 Literature Surveys

Small brown folder containing handwritten surveys of scientific literature.

Creator Ailsa Macvey Swan
Date range c. 1949 - c. 1951    Quantity 1 file
Formats Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier SWAN00004 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-10 Research Notes

Small black folder containing handwritten notes and photographs from CSIRO work on bubbles and foams.

Creator Ailsa Macvey Swan
Date range 1951    Quantity 1 file
Formats Loose Notes and Loose Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier SWAN00003 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-11 Helical Bubble Patterns on Ice

File inscribed 'A. M. Swan, Helical bubble patterns on ice (T. O'D. Hanley)', containing: photograph; typed letter to A. M. Swan from Thos. O'D. Hanley, 5 September 1978; news clipping from New Scientist, 1 June 1978; letter to Mr Hanley from A. M. Swan, 15 August 1978; reprint: T. O'D. Hanley and T. Vo Van, 'Helical Clouds in Ice' from Journal of Crystal Growth, vol. 14, 1978, pp. 147-151.

Creator Ailsa Macvey Swan
Date range 1978    Quantity 1 file
Formats General Correspondence, News Clippings and Published Papers or Articles
Inventory Identifier SWAN00002 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-12 CSIRO Division of Industrial Chemistry

CSIRO Division of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Section, Monthly Report No. 100, June 1951.

Creator Ailsa Macvey Swan
Date range June 1951    Quantity 1 file
Formats Reports
Inventory Identifier SWAN00001 Box Number 1 Series 1
1-13 Ailsa Macvey Swan, Funeral Service, Biographical Notes

File inscribed 'Ailsa Macvey Swan, Funeral Service, Biographical Notes', containing: correspondence regarding award of Medal of the Order of Australia; copy of last will and testament; FOFI News, newsletter of the Friends of French Island National Park Inc. , May 1998, includes obituary of Ailsa Swan; obituaries from The Age, Phillip Island and San Remo Advertiser and Sydney Morning Herald; copy of the funeral service; and biographical notes.

Creator Ailsa Macvey Swan
Date range 1998    Quantity 0.5 cm, 1 file
Formats News Clippings and Loose Notes
Inventory Identifier SWAN00158 Box Number 1 Series 1

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