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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-10-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001694b.htm person Holmes Walter Morell AACR2 8 December 1883 13 February 1955 Place of Birth Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Physicist Walter Holmes was a physicist in Victoria and an author of at least two scientific articles. 1905 1905 Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Melbourne 1906 1909 Career position - Instructor in Engineering at the Working Men's College, Melbourne 1907 1907 Education - Master of Arts (MA), University of Melbourne 1909 1909 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne 1911 1924 Career position - Lecturer in Natural Philosophy, University of Melbourne 1915 1919 Career position - Physicist with the National Physics Laboratory in the UK 1924 1940 Career position - Assistant at the Melbourne Observatory 1940 1945 Career position - Physicist with Metrology Department of the Munitions Supply Laboratories in Maribyrnong 1944 1949 Career position - Superintendent of Weights and Measures in Victoria Working Men's College (1882 - 1933)

Instructor in Engineering, 1906-1909

 Holmes, Bruce Morell (1916 - 1954)

Walter was uncle to Bruce

 Holmes, Andrew Bruce (1943 - )

Walter was great uncle to Andrew

 Holmes, Walter Morrell (1883-1955)

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 'Holmes, Walter Morell', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Holmes, Walter Morell Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Holmes, Walter Morrell Holmes, Walter Morrell Australian Science Archives Project 1995 Physics in Australia to 1945 R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham