Person

Fenton, Keith Brian (Peter) (1925 - 2009)

Born
1925
Died
9 March 2009
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Occupation
Physicist
Alternative Names
  • Fenton, Peter

Summary

Peter Fenton was a leading researcher in cosmic ray astronomy in Australia.

Skip to

Details

Chronology

1947
Education - Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), University of Tasmania
1953
Education - Doctor of Philosophy, University of Tasmania
1966
Research - Detected first known X-ray transient using a detector aboard a rocket.
1985 - 1986
Career position - President, Astronomical Society of Australia
1992 - 2009
Award - Honorary Fellow, Astronomical Society of Australia

Sibling

Related Corporate Bodies

Related People

Published resources

Journal Articles

  • George, Martin, 'Gentlemen of Science', Alumni news /​ The University of Tasmania., 34 (September 2008) (2008), 8-9. Details

See also

Ken McInnes

Created: 12 November 2019, Last modified: 16 September 2025

EOAS ID: biogs/P006698b.htm

This Edition: 2026 February - 1926 Centenaries
Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar - Late summer: late January to late March - season of eels
Reference: https://www.bom.gov.au/resources/indigenous-weather-knowledge/indigenous-seasonal-calendars/gariwerd-calendar#bom-anchor-list__item-kooyang-season-of-eels

Publisher: Swinburne University of Technology.

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006698b.htm

For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260