Allen, Clabon Walter (1904 - 1987)

Summary

Clabon Allen was an assistant at the Commonwealth Solar Observatory (later Commonwealth Observatory) 1926-1951 and then the Perren Professor of Astronomy, University of London 1951-1972.

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Chronology

1926

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Western Australia

1926 - c. 1950

Career position - Assistant, Commonwealth Solar Observatory

1929

Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Western Australia

1936

Career position - Doctor of Science (DSc), Universities of Western Australia

c. 1950 - 1951

Career position - Assistant, Commonwealth Observatory

1951 - 1972

Career position - Perren Professor of Astronomy, University of London

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Mount Stromlo Observatory, 1936 - 1956, MS 037; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Clabon Walter Allen - Records, 1922 - 1953, MS 7360; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/omp.htm. Details

Book Sections

• Allen, C. W., 'Duffield, Walter Geoffrey (1879-1929), astronomer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), p. 351. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/duffield-walter-geoffrey-6027. Details
• Gascoigne, S. C. B., 'Allen, Clabon Walter (1904-1987), astronomer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 17: 1981 - 1990 A-K, Diane Langmore, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), pp. 13-14. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/allen-clabon-walter-cla-12129. Details

Journal Articles

• Allen, C. W., 'The Beginnings of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 4 (1) (1979), 27-49. https://www.publish.csiro.au/hr/HR9790410027. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5124854. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/39440131. Details
• 'Allen, C W (19041228-19871211)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-822837. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Allen, Clabon Walter', 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/P000006p.htm. Details
• 'Allen, Clabon Walter', in The Giant's Eye: the Optical Munitions Exhibition, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/omp/people/allen.htm. Details

See also

• Davies, Susan, 'R. v.d. R. Woolley in Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (1) (1984), 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9840610059. Details
• Sherratt, Tim; Condé, Anne-Marie, A Wartime Observatory Observed - the Mount Stromlo Community, 1940-1945, Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1994, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/tps/tps_stromlo_draft.htm. Details