Person
Merfield, Zeus Amphion (1899 - 1965)
- Born
- 19 June 1899
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 16 September 1965
- Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
Zeus Merfield was a physicist with the Commonwealth Department of Supply Aeronautical Research Laboratories from 1949-1964.
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Chronology
- 1920 - 1921
- Education - Educated at the University of Melbourne
- 1922 - 1926
- Career position - Research Assistant in Natural Philosophy at the University of Melbourne
- 1927 - 1932
- Career position - Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne
- 1932 - 1938
- Career position - Proprietor of Merfield & Sons, consultant physicists
- 1947 - 1949
- Career position - Senior Experimental Officer at the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Division of Aeronautics
- 1949 - 1964
- Career position - Physicist at the Commonwealth Department of Supply Aeronautical Research Laboratories
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Orchiston, Wayne, 'Comets and Communication: Amateur-Professional Tension in Australian Astronomy', Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 16 (1999), 212-221. Details
Resources
- 'Merfield, Zeus Amphion (1899-1965)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473624. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Merfield, Zeus Amphion', 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/P001751p.htm. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 1 March 2018
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