Biographical entry Allen, Clabon Walter (1904 - 1987)

Summary

Clabon Allen was an assistant at the Mount Stromlo Observatory 1926-1951 and then the Perren Professor of Astronomy, University of London 1951-1972.

Details

Events

1926

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Western Australia

1926 - 1951

Career position - Assistant at Mount Stromlo Observatory in the Australian Capital Territory

1929

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at University of Western Australia

1936

Career position - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the Universities of Western Australia

1951 - 1972

Career position - Perren Professor of Astronomy at the University of London

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Mount Stromlo Observatory, 1936 - 1956, MS 037; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Clabon Walter Allen - Records, 1922 - 1953, MS 7360; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/omp.htm. Details

Book Sections

• Allen, C. W., 'Duffield, Walter Geoffrey (1879-1929)', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 8, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1981, p. 351. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080375b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Allen, C. W., 'The Beginnings of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol. 4, no. 1, 1979, pp. 27-49. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9790410027.htm. Details
• Gascoigne, S. C. B., 'Allen, Clabon Walter (1904-1987), Astronomer', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 17, 2007, pp. 13-14. Details

Online Resources

• 'Allen, Clabon Walter', 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/P000006p.htm. Details
• 'Allen, Clabon Walter', 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/allen.htm. Details
• 'Allen, C W', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-822837. Details

See also

• Davies, Susan, 'R. v.d. R. Wooley in Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 1, 1984, pp. 59-69. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9840610059.htm. Details
• Sherratt, Tim; Condé, Anne-Marie, A Wartime Observatory Observed - the Mount Stromlo Community, 1940-1945, Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1994, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/tps/tps_stromlo_draft.htm. Details