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Taylor, Thomas Griffith (1880 - 1963)

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Geographer and Meteorologist

Born: 1 December 1880 Walthamstow, Essex, England. Died: 5 November 1963 Manly, New South Wales, Australia.

Thomas Griffith Taylor was senior geologist to the British Antarctic expedition 1910-13 under R.F. Scott. He was Associate Professor of Geography, University of Sydney 1920-28, and then professor at the Universities of Chicago 1928-35 and Toronto 1935-51. In 1913 he and E.T. Quayle wrote the first text-book on Australian meteorology Climate and Weather of Australia.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1913 Climate and Weather of Australia co-authored with E.T. Quayle
1954 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

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See Also

Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P000824. [ Details ]
Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/scripts/fam-dynindex.php3?EID=P000824. [ Details ]

Structure based on ISAAR(CPF) - click here for an explanation of the fields.

Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 7 August 2006

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