Person

Pell, Morris Birkbeck (1827 - 1879)

Born: 31 March 1827
Albion, Illinois, United States of America
Died: 7 May 1879
Glebe, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Mathematician

Summary

Morris Pell was Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, University of Sydney 1852-1873.

Related Corporate Bodies

The University of Sydney (1850 - )
Morris Pell was Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, University of Sydney 1852-1873.

Date: 1852 - 1873

Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

Morris Birkbeck Pell - Records, 1862 - 1932; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

University of Sydney, Archives

Morris Birkbeck Pell - Records, 1862 - 1931, P 56; University of Sydney, Archives. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details

Journal Articles

Lancaster, H. O., 'Morris Birbeck Pell, 1827 - 1879', Australian Mathematical Society gazette, 4 (1977), 89-94. Details
Pell, Morris Birkbeck, 'On the Constitution of Matter', Transactions of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 5 (1871), appendix pp 1-25. Details
Seneta, E., 'Silhouettes of early Australian statistics', Australian Journal of Statistics, 30 (B) (1988), 2-22. Details

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6913616. Details
VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/31771924. Details
'Pell, Morris Birkbeck (1827-1879)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-811403. Details

Resource Sections

'Pell, Morris Birkbeck', 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/P000700p.htm. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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