There is no Australian State named after a scientist.
The six Australian States are:
Another possibility:
However, if the question means which Australian state capital was named after a scientist, the answer is Darwin,capital of the Northern Territory.
The Australian state of Victoria is named after Queen Victoria.
No Australian state capitals were named after queens.The states of Victoria and Queensland were named after Queen Victoria.
The Australian state of Victoria is named after Queen Victoria.
No Australian state or territory was originally named Palmerston.Palmerston was the original name for the settlement that later became Darwin, now the capital of the Northern Territory.
No, Ned Kelly was a famous Australian bush ranger not a famous Australian scientist.
It was a guy named Tim Flannery a 1956 scientist.
One famous Australian scientist is Dr. Fiona Wood, a plastic surgeon known for her pioneering work in developing spray-on skin for burn victims. She was also named Australian of the Year in 2005 for her contributions to medicine.
Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, was named after Queen Adelaide.
Canberra is the only one I can think of However The ACT is a teritory not a state. Perth is the only State capital that's NOT named after a person.
Holmium was not named after a scientist, it was actually named after the Latin name for Stockholm.
No, Stephen Hawking is a British scientist in physics.
Curtin is a suburb of Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, not a state. Canberra has suburbs named after all of the earlier Prime Ministers of Australia.