Person

Love, Ernest Frederick John (1861 - 1929)

Born
31 October 1861
Weston-super-Mare, England
Died
9 March 1929
Coburg, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Physicist

Summary

Ernest Love was appointed as an assistant lecturer and demonstrator in natural philosophy at the University of Melbourne (1888) and he taught at the university until his retirement in 1929. He was active in scientific societies including the Royal Society of Victoria, the Victorian Branch of the British Astronomical Association, the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Australian National Research Council.

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Chronology

1888 - 1927
Career position - Assistant Lecturer and Demonstrator, Department of Natural Philosophy, University of Melbourne
1889
Career event - Joined the Royal Society of Victoria
1893 - 1904
Career position - Secretary for Victoria, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1895
Career event - Elected Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society, United Kingdom
1899 - 1903
Career position - President, Victorian Branch, British Astronomical Association
1904
Career position - President, Section A (Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1908
Award - DSc for collected thermodymanics publications, University of Melbourne
1921
Career position - Foundation Councillor (Physics), Australian National Research Council
1922 - 1929
Career position - Foundation Secretary, National Committee for Geodesy and Geophysics, Australian National Research Council

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Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details

Book Sections

  • Home, R. W., 'Love, Ernest Frederick John (1861-1929), physicist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 149-150. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100143b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Love, E. F. J., 'Notes on the determination of the thrust lines of a skew arch (Paper & Discussion)', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers vol. III (1903), 58-68. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24284. Details
  • Love, Ernst Frederick John, 'The Joule-Thompson Effect: its connexion with the Characteristic Equation, and Some of its Thermodynamical Consequences', The Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science (1899), 106-115. Details
  • Lyle, M.A.; Steele, W.H.; and Love, Ernst Frederick John, 'On Our Knowledge of the Thermodynamics of the Voltaic Cell', Report of the seventh meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 7 (1898), 71-86, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15378005. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

McCarthy, G.J.

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