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Biographical entry Duffield, Walter Geoffrey (1879 - 1929)
- Born
- 12 August 1879
Gawler, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 1 August 1929
Mount Stromlo, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Occupation
- Astronomer
Summary
Walter Geoffrey Duffield was Professor of Physics, Reading University, England 1910-23 and was appointed the inaugural Director of the Solar Physics Observatory, Mount Stromlo near Canberra, in 1924. He was born in Adelaide and had studied with W.H. Bragg.
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Walter Geoffrey Duffield - Records, 1880 - 1987, MS 95; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Published resources
Books
- McCarthy, Gavan; Sankey, Howard, The Papers of Walter Geoffrey Duffield (1879-1929), Australian Science Archives Project, Melbourne, 1987, 29 pp. Also available at http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/duff/duffield.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
- Edgeloe, V. A., 'Four Nineteenth Century Graduates', Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, vol. 14, 1986, pp. 137-148. Details
- Love, Rosaleen, 'Science and Government in Australia 1905-14: Geoffrey Duffield and the Foundation of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 2, 1985, pp. 171-189. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9850620171.htm. Details
Online Resources
- 'Duffield, Walter Geoffrey', 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/P000375p.htm. Details
- McCarthy, Gavan; Sankey, Howard, Walter Geoffrey Duffield Guide to Records, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 2004, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/duff/duffield.htm. Details
- National Library of Australia, 'Duffield, Walter Geoffrey', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462210. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
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