Person

Whitehouse, Frederick William (1900 - 1973)

Born
20 December 1900
Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Died
22 March 1973
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Geologist

Summary

Frederick Whitehouse was Associate Professor of Geology, University of Queensland 1949-1955, and from 1925 to 1955 worked for the Geological Survey of Queensland as Government Geologist. He published a number of significant papers on the geology of Queensland and of the Great Artesian Basin. His work on the Cambrian trilobites of the Georgina Basin gained him international recognition. From 1934 to 1953 he made national broadcasts on the ABC on a wide range of geological topics. Whitehouse was active in Queensland scientific circles, holding office as President of the Royal Society of Queensland, the Anthropological Society of Queensland, and the Queensland Naturalists' Club.

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Chronology

1922
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Queensland
1924
Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Queensland
1925
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Cambridge, UK
1925 - 1955
Career position - Worked intermittently as Queensland Government Geologist
1926 - 1955
Career position - Worked intermittently as Lecturer in Geology, University of Queensland
1929
Career position - President, Queensland Naturalists' Club
1932
Career event - Elected Associate Member (Geology), Australian National Research Council
1939
Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Queensland
1940 - 1941
Career position - President, Royal Society of Queensland
1941
Award - Walter Burfitt Prize, Royal Society of New South Wales
1941 - 1945
Military service - Second World War. Captain, Actring Lt Col, Royal Australian Engineers [1942-43: road-building in Queensland and New Guinea; 1944-45: formulated procedures for amphibious assaults across coral reefs
1946 - 1947
Career position - Seconded to the Department of the Coordinator-General of Public Works
1949 - 1955
Career position - Associate Professor of Geology, University of Queensland
1972 - 1973
Career position - President, Anthropological Society of Queensland

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Archival resources

University of Queensland, Geology Department Library

  • Frederick William Whitehouse - Records, 1949 - 1955; University of Queensland, Geology Department Library. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

  • Chapman, Richard E., 'Whitehouse, Frederick William (1900-1973), Geologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 16: 1940 - 1980 Pik-Z, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), p. 538. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160640b.htm. Details
  • Whitehouse, F. W., 'The geology of the Queensland portion of the Great Australian Artesian Basin' in Artesian water supplies in Queensland, appendix G (Brisbane: Queensland Department of the Co-Ordinator of General Public Works, 1955). Details

Journal Articles

  • Colliver, F. S., 'Dr. F. W. Whitehouse, 1900 - 1973', Queensland Naturalist, 21 (1/2) (1974), 33-4. Details
  • Whitehouse, F. W., 'Report on a collection of fossils made by Mr J. H. Reid, in the Springsure district', Queensland Government mining journal, 31 (1930), 156-7. Details
  • Whitehouse, F. W., 'Some notes on the Mesozoic plants collected by C. C. Morton, near North Arm', Queensland Government mining journal, 32 (1931), 274. Details
  • Whitehouse, F. W., 'Studies in the late geological history of Queensland', Papers of the Department of Geology, University of Queensland, 2 (1) (1940), 1074. Details

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See also

Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn

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