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Arthur Frederick Alan Harper - Records

Title
Arthur Frederick Alan Harper - Records
Repository
Private hands (Nickolls, R.)
Date Range
1913 - 1990
Description

Autobiographical notes covering his early life in the Gloucester/Barrington area where his father was a Methodist minister, his years in England with relatives, his student days at the University of Sydney and as the first hospital physicist, and his training in England during the Second World War for the National Standards Laboratory which culminated in his work as Executive Officer of the Metric Conversion Board; they also cover the establishment of the Australian Institute of Physics [200 pages].

Quantity
1 volume
Access
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This Edition: 2026 February - 1926 Centenaries
Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar - Late summer: late January to late March - season of eels
Reference: https://www.bom.gov.au/resources/indigenous-weather-knowledge/indigenous-seasonal-calendars/gariwerd-calendar#bom-anchor-list__item-kooyang-season-of-eels

Publisher: Swinburne University of Technology.

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