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unusual facts about The University of Adelaide



InterVarsity Hockey

The first InterVarsity match was played in 1908 when a team of women students from Melbourne University Hockey Club traveled to Adelaide, SA, to take on a team from The University of Adelaide.


see also

Lawrence A. Mysak

from the University of Adelaide in 1963 (where he was supervised by George Szekeres ) and his Ph.D., also in applied mathematics, from Harvard University in 1967.

Roseworthy

Roseworthy College, a campus of the University of Adelaide, near the town in Australia

Way Archipelago

Discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911–14) under Douglas Mawson, who named the group for Sir Samuel Way, Chancellor of the University of Adelaide in 1911.

William Fletcher

William Roby Fletcher (1833–1894), Congregational minister and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide

William Lawrence Bragg

After beginning his studies at St Peter's College, Adelaide in 1904 he went to the University of Adelaide at age 14 to study mathematics, chemistry and physics, graduating in 1908.