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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1995-06-29 human Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes updated 2026-03-02 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002230b.htm person Hunt Henry Ambrose AACR2 7 February 1866 7 February 1946 Place of Birth London, Middlesex, England Place of Death Elwood, Victoria, Australia Meteorologist Science administrator Henry Hunt was the first Meteorologist and first head of the Commonwealth Meteorological Bureau, from 1906 to 1931. Hunt invented a new form of pressure anemometer in 1908, for measuring wind strength. He co-authored, along with E.T. Quayle and T. Griffith Taylor, the first text-book on Australian meteorology, Climate and weather of Australia (Sydney, 1913).

Hunt began his meteorological career as an assistant to H. C. Russell in Sydney. He had already won an international prize for his work on the Southerly Buster when appointed as Australia's first Commonwealth Meteorologist in 1906. He was immediately despatched on a world trip to assess the latest developments in meteorology. Although he provided outstanding scientific leadership to the early Bureau, he fought a long and difficult battle through the period of the First World War and the Great Depression to obtain the resources needed to build the networks and scientific basis for Australia's meteorological services. A Hundred Years of Science and Service, Bureau of Meteorology, 2001.

1884 1884 Life event - Emigrated to Sydney, Austalia 1884 1886 Career position - Clerk, Sydney Observatory 1886 1903 Career position - Meteorological assistant, Sydney Observatory 1894 1894 Award - Ralph Abercromby prize for An Essay on Southerly Bursters (Sydney, 1894) 1904 1906 Career position - Acting meteorologist, Sydney Observatory 1906 1931 Career position - First appointed Meteorologist, Commonwealth Meteorological Bureau, in Melbourne 1908 1908 Career event - Invented a new form of pressure anemometer 1913 1913 Publication - Book: Climate and Weather of Australia, co-authored with T.G. Taylor and E.T. Quayle 1919 1919 Career position - Foundation Councillor (Meteorology), Australian National Research Council Quayle, Edwin Thomas (1862 - 1955)

Co-author: Climate and Weather of Australia (1913)

 Taylor, Thomas Griffith (1880 - 1963)

Co-author: Climate and Weather of Australia (1913)

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

Foundation Member (Meteorology) 1919 -

 Sydney Observatory, Colony and State of New South Wales (1858 - )

Acting meteorologist 1903 - 1906; Clerk then meteorological assistant 1884 - 1906

 Meteorological Branch/Bureau, Commonwealth of Australia (1907 - 1955)

First Meteorologist, and Head of the Bureau 1907 - 1931

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 'Hunt, Henry Ambrose', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hunt, Henry Ambrose Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource Section: Hunt, Henry Ambrose Hunt, Henry Ambrose Australian Science Archives Project 1995 Physics in Australia to 1945 R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham Book Section: Hunt, Henry Ambrose (1866-1946), meteorologist Walsh, G. P. Hunt, Henry Ambrose (1866-1946), meteorologist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1983 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 405 Journal Article: Wind Data Recorder (Exhibit) Hunt, Henry Ambrose Wind Data Recorder (Exhibit) 1910 Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers vol. X 149-153 Book: Climate and weather of Australia Hunt, H. A., Taylor, Griffith and Quayle, E. T. Climate and weather of Australia Melbourne Government Printer 1913 Resource: Federation and Meteorology Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Federation and Meteorology 2001 Henry Ambrose Hunt Henry Ambrose Hunt

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