Edwards, Austin Burton (1909 - 1960)

Summary

Austin Edwards was a member of the Mineragraphic Section of the CSIR/O from 1934 and was Officer-In-Charge 1953-1960. Many of the Section's substantial contributions to mineragraphy have been drawn on for the compilation of a standard text called The texture of ore minerals and their significance by Dr. A. B. Edwards, who was Officer-in-Charge of the Section from 1953 to 1960. The A. B. Edwards Award has been presented by the Geological Society oa Australia, since 1990, for the best paper on aspects of economic geology published in the Australian journal of earth science.

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Chronology

1932 - 1934

Award - 1851 Exhibition Overseas Scholarship [Geology. - The nature and distribution of certain alkaline lavas in Victoria, and of tertiary lavas of the Kerguelen Archipelago. Imperial College of Science and Technology, London]

1953 - 1960

Career position - Officer-in-Charge, CSIR/O Mineragraphic Investigations

1960

Award - Clarke Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Austin Burton Edwards - Records, 1930 - 1945, MS 041; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, Melbourne, 2012, https://www.eoas.info/exhibitions/basser/basser_browse.html. Details

Books

• Edwards, Austin Barton, Textures of the ore minerals and their significance (Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1947), 185 pp. Details
• Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Record of the science research scholars of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, 1891 - 1960 (London: The Commissioners, 1961), 107 pp. Overseas Scholarship - Entry No.79. Details

Book Sections

• Vallance, T. G., 'Edwards, Austin Burton (1909-1960), geologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 14: 1940 - 1980 Di-Kel, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. 81-82. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/edwards-austin-burton-10101. Details

Journal Articles

• Edwards, A. B., 'Obituary: Ernest Willington Skeats', Australian Journal of Science, 15 (4) (1953), 127-128. Details
• Stillwell, F., 'Memorial to Austin Burton Edwards', American mineralogist, 46 (1961), 488-96. Details
• Stillwell, F. L., 'Obituary: Austin Burton Edwards', Australian Journal of Science, 23 (8) (1961), 260. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4823008. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/61939445. Details
• 'Edwards, A B (1909-1960)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-495364. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, https://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_e.html. Details
• Hill, Dorothy, 'Edwin Sherbon Hills, 1906-1986', Historical Records of Australian Science, 7 (1) (1987), 79-95. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9870710079. Details
• Hyde, B. G.; and Day, P, 'John Stuart Anderson', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (2) (1992), 127-49. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920920127. Details