Biographical entry Baldwin, Joseph Mason (1878 - 1945)

Summary

Joseph Mason Baldwin was the Chief Assistant at the Melbourne Observatory from 1908, Acting Director from 1915 and Government Astronomer of Victoria 1920-43.

Details

Born 9 September 1878. Died 6 July 1945. Educated University of Melbourne (BA 1900, BSc 1901, MA 1902, DSc 1913). Tutor, Trinity College, teacher, Wesley College, lecturer, Ballarat School of Mines, research for Thomas Lyle, University of Melbourne 1904-05, 1851 Exhibition scholarship 1906-08, research assistant, Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope and Potsdam Observatory, Germany, chief assistant, Melbourne Observatory 1908-15, acting director 1915-20, government astronomer 1920-43. Syme Prize 1914. Officer in charge of time service, Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Mount Stromlo 1943-44, leader, solar eclipse expedition, Goondiwindi, Queensland 1922. President, Royal Society of Victoria 1925-26; President, Section A, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science 1930-31.

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Archival resources

Private hands (Harley, J.)

• Joseph Mason Baldwin - Records, 1878 - 1945; Private hands (Harley, J.). Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Simon, Philipp, 'Baldwin, Joseph Mason (1878-1945), astronomer', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 7, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1979, pp. 157-158. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070158b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Obituary: Joseph Mason Baldwin', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 8, no. 2-3, 1945, pp. 72-73. Details
• Simon, P., 'Joseph Mason Baldwin', Journal of the Astronomical Society of Victoria, vol. 36, no. 3, 1983, pp. 36-38. Details

Online Resources

• 'Baldwin, Joseph Mason', 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/P001409p.htm. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Baldwin, Joseph Mason', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1470122. Details

See also

• Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/scripts/fam-dynindex.php3?EID=P001409. 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