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Merfield, Zeus Amphion (1899 - 1965)

Physicist

Born: 19 June 1899 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Died: 16 September 1965.

Zeus Amphion Merfield was a physicist with the Commonwealth Department of Supply Aeronautical Research Laboratories from 1949-64.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1920 - 1921 Educated at the University of Melbourne
1922 - 1926 Research Assistant in Natural Philosophy at the University of Melbourne
1927 - 1932 Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne
1932 - 1938 Proprietor of Merfield & Sons, consultant physicists
1947 - 1949 Senior Experimental Officer at the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Division of Aeronautics
1949 - 1964 Physicist at the Commonwealth Department of Supply Aeronautical Research Laboratories

Online Sources

'Merfield, Zeus Amphion', 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/P001751p.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 28 August 2006

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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