Kay, Joseph Henry - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry

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Kay, Joseph Henry (1815 - 1875)

FRS

Magnetician and Geophysicist

Born: 1815 London, England. Died: 17 July 1875 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Joseph Henry Kay worked as the Director of the Rossbank Magnetic Observatory in Hobart from 1840-53 and became known for his work on geomagnetism.

Published Sources

'Kay, Joseph Henry', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000530p.htm. [ Details ]

See Also

Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/scripts/smv-dynindex.php3?EID=P000530. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 1 August 2006

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