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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2018-01-16 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2025-07-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000006b.htm person Allen Clabon Walter AACR2 28 December 1904 1987 Place of Birth Perth, Western Australia, Australia Astronomer Clabon Allen was an assistant at the Commonwealth Solar Observatory (later Commonwealth Observatory) 1926-1951 and then the Perren Professor of Astronomy, University of London 1951-1972. 1926 1926 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Western Australia 1926 c. 1950 Career position - Assistant, Commonwealth Solar Observatory 1929 1929 Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Western Australia 1936 1936 Career position - Doctor of Science (DSc), Universities of Western Australia c. 1950 1951 Career position - Assistant, Commonwealth Observatory 1951 1972 Career position - Perren Professor of Astronomy, University of London Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Commonwealth of Australia (1924 - c. 1950)

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 'Allen, Clabon Walter', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Allen, Clabon Walter Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Allen, Clabon Walter Allen, Clabon Walter Australian Science Archives Project 1997 The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition A Bright Sparcs Exhibition Resource Section: Allen, Clabon Walter Allen, Clabon Walter Australian Science Archives Project 1995 Physics in Australia to 1945 R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham Book Section: Duffield, Walter Geoffrey (1879-1929), astronomer Allen, C. W. Duffield, Walter Geoffrey (1879-1929), astronomer Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1981 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 351 Journal Article: The Beginnings of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory Allen, C. W. The Beginnings of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory 1979 Records of the Australian Academy of Science 4 1 27-49 Book Section: Allen, Clabon Walter (1904-1987), astronomer Gascoigne, S. C. B. Allen, Clabon Walter (1904-1987), astronomer Melbourne Melbourne University Press 2007 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 17: 1981 - 1990 A-K Diane Langmore 13-14 Journal Article: R. v.d. R. Woolley in Australia Davies, Susan R. v.d. R. Woolley in Australia 1984 Historical Records of Australian Science 6 1 59-69 Resource: A Wartime Observatory Observed - the Mount Stromlo Community, 1940-1945 Sherratt, Tim; Condé, Anne-Marie A Wartime Observatory Observed - the Mount Stromlo Community, 1940-1945 Canberra Australian Science Archives Project 1994 Clabon Walter Allen - Records National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection Clabon Walter Allen - Records MS 7360 1922 - 1953 Box 1 Diaries Vol. 1 (May 1922-Nov. 1922) to Vol. 17 (April 1940-Oct.1941). Box 2 Diaries Vol. 18 (Oct. 1941-June 1943) to Vol. 25 (July 1952-Feb. 1953). Folder containing copies of obituaries, music manuscripts, copies of Canberra and District Historical Society Newsletters containing addresses by Cla Allen titled "Music in Canberra 1926" (Sept. 1978) and "Personalities on Mount Stromlo" (May 1979). Copy of some comments on Diaries - lists period covered by each diary and the reasons for keeping a diary. Also includes 53 reprints 1944-1978. 0.28 m, 2 boxes Mount Stromlo Observatory Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Mount Stromlo Observatory MS 037 1936 - 1956 Report of the Board of Visitors of the Commonwealth Observatory, 1940-1954; MS diary kept at the Observatory by W. B. Rimmer, 1936-1950; MS diary kept by A. R. Hogg and C. W. Allen, 1951-1956; two photographs of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory, 1940; letter, photograph of W. G. Duffield, to A. R. Hogg. 0.16 m, 2 boxes