Person
Whitehouse, Frederick William (1900 - 1973)
- Born
- 20 December 1900
Ipswich, Queensland, Australia - Died
- 22 March 1973
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Geologist
Summary
Frederick Whitehouse was Associate Professor of Geology, University of Queensland 1949-1955, and from 1925 to 1955 worked for the Geological Survey of Queensland as Government Geologist. He published a number of significant papers on the geology of Queensland and of the Great Artesian Basin. His work on the Cambrian trilobites of the Georgina Basin gained him international recognition. From 1934 to 1953 he made national broadcasts on the ABC on a wide range of geological topics. Whitehouse was active in Queensland scientific circles, holding office as President of the Royal Society of Queensland, the Anthropological Society of Queensland, and the Queensland Naturalists' Club.
Details
Chronology
- 1922
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Queensland
- 1924
- Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Queensland
- 1925
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Cambridge, UK
- 1925 - 1955
- Career position - Worked intermittently as Queensland Government Geologist
- 1926 - 1955
- Career position - Worked intermittently as Lecturer in Geology at the University of Queensland
- 1929
- Career position - President of the Queensland Naturalists' Club
- 1939
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Queensland
- 1940 - 1941
- Career position - President of the Royal Society of Queensland
- 1941
- Award - Walter Burfitt Prize, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 7 July 1941
- Career position - Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force
- 1942 - 1943
- Career position - Served with the Royal Australian Engineers, using his geological knowledge for road-building in Queensland and New Guinea
- 1944 - 1945
- Career position - Served in the Royal Australian Engineers, formulating procedures for amphibious assaults across coral reefs
- 21 December 1945
- Career position - Demobilised
- 1946 - 1947
- Career position - Seconded to the Department of the Coordinator-General of Public Works
- 1949 - 1955
- Career position - Associate Professor of Geology at the University of Queensland
- 1972 - 1973
- Career position - President of the Anthropological Society of Queensland
Related entries
Archival resources
University of Queensland, Geology Department Library
- Frederick William Whitehouse - Records, 1949 - 1955; University of Queensland, Geology Department Library. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Chapman, Richard E., 'Whitehouse, Frederick William (1900-1973), Geologist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds, vol. 16 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), p. 538. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160640b.htm. Details
- Whitehouse, F. W., 'The geology of the Queensland portion of the Great Australian Artesian Basin' in Artesian water supplies in Queensland, appendix G (Brisbane: Queensland Department of the Co-Ordinator of General Public Works, 1955). Details
Journal Articles
- Colliver, F. S., 'Dr. F. W. Whitehouse, 1900 - 1973', Queensland Naturalist, 21 (1/2) (1974), 33-4. Details
- Whitehouse, F. W., 'Report on a collection of fossils made by Mr J. H. Reid, in the Springsure district', Queensland Government mining journal, 31 (1930), 156-7. Details
- Whitehouse, F. W., 'Some notes on the Mesozoic plants collected by C. C. Morton, near North Arm', Queensland Government mining journal, 32 (1931), 274. Details
- Whitehouse, F. W., 'Studies in the late geological history of Queensland', Papers of the Department of Geology, University of Queensland, 2 (1) (1940), 1074. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5499116. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94980633. Details
- 'Whitehouse, F W (1900-1973)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1306633. Details
See also
- Fagg, Murray, 'Whitehouse, Frederick William (1900 - 1973)', Australian Plant Collectors and Illustrators, Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH), 2010, https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/whitehouse-frederick-william.html. Details
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Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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