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White, Edward John (1831 - 1913)

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Meteorologist and Astronomer

Born: 8 December 1831 England. Died: 2 August 1913.

Edward John White was Assistant at the Melbourne Observatory 1860-92 and Acting Government Astronomer 1875-76. Earlier he worked at the Bendigo gold diggings. President of the Royal Society of Victoria 1902.

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'White, Edward John', 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/P001840p.htm. [ Details ]

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Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/scripts/fam-dynindex.php3?EID=P001840. [ Details ]
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=P001840. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 15 September 2004

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