Biographical entry Harper, Arthur Frederick Alan (1913 - 1991)

Summary

Arthur Frederick A. Harper joined the CSIR/O National Standards Laboratory in 1939 and led the Heat and Temperature Measurement Section of the Division of Physics for 30 years. He was also involved in Australia's conversion to the metric system of measurement.

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

• Arthur Frederick Alan Harper - Records, 1934 - 1980, DeB 1164; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

Private hands (Nickolls, R.)

• Arthur Frederick Alan Harper - Records, 1913 - 1990; Private hands (Nickolls, R.). Details

Published resources

Online Resources

• 'Harper, Arthur Frederick Alan', 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/P001336p.htm. Details
• 'Primary description of person CP 619; Arthur Frederick Alan Harper', in RecordsSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CP+619. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Harper, Alan', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-478644. Details

See also

• Paterson, M. S., 'John Conrad Jaeger 1907-1979', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 5, no. 3, 1982, pp. 64-88. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9820530064.htm. Details
• Piddington, John Hobart, 'Ronald Gordon Giovanelli 1915-84', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 2, 1985, pp. 223-236. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9850620223.htm. Details