Person
Hunt, Henry Ambrose (1866 - 1946)
- Born
- 7 February 1866
London, England - Died
- 7 February 1946
Elwood, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Meteorologist and Science administrator
Summary
Henry Hunt was the first Commonwealth Meteorologist of the Bureau of Meteorology (1907-1931), and co-authored, along with E.T. Quayle and T. Griffith Taylor, the first text-book on Australian meteorology, Climate and Weather of Australia, 1913.
Details
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 1907. 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.
Chronology
- 1919
- Career position - Foundation Councillor (Meteorology), Australian National Research Council
Related entries
Published resources
Book Sections
- Walsh, G. P., 'Hunt, Henry Ambrose (1866-1946), Meteorologist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 9 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), p. 405. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090401b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Hunt, Henry Ambrose, 'Wind Data Recorder (Exhibit)', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers vol. X (1910), 149-153. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24454. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5717294. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/77825073. Details
- 'Hunt, Henry Ambrose (1866-1946)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1466531. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Hunt, Henry Ambrose', 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/P002230p.htm. Details
See also
- Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/index_h.html. Details
Digital resources
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Created: 29 June 1995, Last modified: 5 March 2018
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