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.
Details
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
Related entries
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
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24040817. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93487565. Details
- 'Love, E F J (1861-1929)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-571495. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Love, Ernest Frederick John', 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/P001316p.htm. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 25 January 2024
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