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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn updated 2026-03-18 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001409b.htm person Baldwin Joseph Mason AACR2 9 December 1878 6 July 1945 Place of Birth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Southport, Queensland, Australia Astronomer Joseph Baldwin was an astronomer who became Chief Assistant at the Melbourne Observatory in 1908, and held the office of Director of the Observatory and Victorian Government Astronomer for 23 years to 1943. During this time the Observatory's main activity was observation of the Melbourne zone for the International Astrographic Catalogue, published in multiple volumes between 1926 and 1963. Baldwin was responsible for setting up the geophysical observatory at Toolangi, recording the exact time for the time-signal service, and magnetic observations. On the closure of the Melbourne observatory in 1944 Baldwin moved to the Mount Stromlo Observatory in the Australian Capital Territory.

Tutor, Trinity College, teacher, Wesley College, lecturer, Ballarat School of Mines, research for Thomas Lyle, University of Melbourne 1904-05.

1900 1900 Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Melbourne 1901 1901 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne 1902 1902 Education - Master of Arts (MA), University of Melbourne 1906 1908 Award - 1851 Exhibition Science Research Scholarship 1908 1908 Career position - Research assistant, Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope and Potsdam Observatory, Germany 1908 1915 Career position - Chief assistant, Melbourne Observatory 1913 1913 Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Melbourne 1914 1914 Award - David Syme Research Prize, University of Melbourne 1915 1920 Career position - Acting Director, Melbourne Observatory 1919 Career position - Foundation Councillor (Astronomy), Australian National Research Council 1920 1943 Career position - Government Astronomer and Director, Melbourne Observatory 1920 1945 Career position - Member of Council, Royal Society of Victoria 1922 1922 Career event - Leader, solar eclipse expedition, Goondiwindi, Queensland 1925 1926 Career position - President, Royal Society of Victoria 1930 1930 Career position - President, Section A (Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1939 1939 Career position - Chair, National Committee for Astronomy, Australian National Research Council 1943 1944 Career position - Officer in charge of time service, Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Mount Stromlo 1944 1944 Life event - Retired Peel, Charlotte Emily Fforde (1876 - 1974) Melbourne Observatory, Colony and State of Victoria (1863 - 1944)

Director of the Observatory and Victorian Government Astronomer 1920 - 1943

 David Syme Research Prize, The University of Melbourne (1904 - )

Awarded the Prize 1914

 Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) (1930 - )

President, Section A (Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics) 1930

 Royal Society of Victoria (1859 - )

Member of Council 1920 - 1945; President 1925 - 1926

 Australian National Research Council (ANRC) (1919 - 1955)

Foundation Member (Astronomy) 1919 -

 1851 Exhibition Scholarship Awards, Australia (1891 - ) National Committee for Astronomy [I], Australian National Research Council (1939 - 1954)

Chair 1939

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 'Baldwin, Joseph Mason', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Baldwin, Joseph Mason Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Baldwin, Joseph Mason Baldwin, Joseph Mason Australian Science Archives Project 1995 Physics in Australia to 1945 R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham Book Section: Baldwin, Joseph Mason (1878-1945), astronomer Simon, Philipp Baldwin, Joseph Mason (1878-1945), astronomer Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1979 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 157-158 Journal Article: Obituary: Joseph Mason Baldwin Obituary: Joseph Mason Baldwin 1945 Australian Journal of Science 8 2-3 72-73 Journal Article: Joseph Mason Baldwin Simon, P. Joseph Mason Baldwin 1983 Journal of the Astronomical Society of Victoria 36 3 36-38 Journal Article: Comet observations made in 1914 and 1915 at the Melbourne Observatory Baldwin, J. Comet observations made in 1914 and 1915 at the Melbourne Observatory 1917 Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 77 474-7 Thesis: Measuring the stars and observing the less visible: Australia's participation in the Astrographic Catalogue and Carte du Ciel Stevenson, T. Measuring the stars and observing the less visible: Australia's participation in the Astrographic Catalogue and Carte du Ciel University of Sydney 2015 Resource: Federation and Meteorology Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Federation and Meteorology 2001 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 Joseph Mason Baldwin - Records Private hands (Harley, J.) Joseph Mason Baldwin - Records 1878 - 1945 Family papers c1878-1945. Baldwin, Joseph Mason Portrait Baldwin, Joseph Mason Portrait Royal Society of Victoria Presidential Portrait

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