Person
Mercer, Edgar Howard (1913 - )
- Born
- 16 February 1913
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Physicist and Biologist
Summary
Edgar Mercer has had a long and extremely varied career. He has worked in the disciplines of physics, chemistry, biology and electron microscopy and in industries as diverse as textiles, animal health, and human dermatology. Throughout his career, Mercer worked in Australia, the United Kingdom and in the United States of America. One of his last positions was Professor of Biology at the University of Hawaii.
Details
Chronology
- 1935
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Adelaide
- 1937
- Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc(Hons)), University of Adelaide
- 1939 - 1941
- Career position - Physicist at the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Division of Animal Health and Nutrition
- 1941 - 1947
- Career position - Physicist at the National Standards Laboratory
- 1947 - 1949
- Career position - ICI Fellow, University of Leeds, UK
- 1948
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Leeds
- 1949 - 1952
- Career position - Research Officer at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Industrial Chemistry
- 1952 - 1953
- Career position - Electron Microscopist at the Textile Research Institute at Princeton, USA
- 1953 - 1962
- Career position - Electron Microscopist(?) at the Chester Beatty Institute for Cancer Research in London
- 1960
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Adelaide
- 1963 - 1967
- Career position - Head of the Electron Microscopy Unit at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra
- 1967 - 1969
- Career position - Research Assistant in the Department of Dermatology, University of California Medical Centre in San Francisco, USA
- 1973 - 1981
- Career position - Professor of Biology, University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA
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Published resources
Resources
- 'Mercer, E H (19130216-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1233004. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Mercer, Edgar Howard', 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/P001750p.htm. Details
See also
- Walsh, A.; and Willis, J. B., 'Albert Lloyd George Rees 1916-1989', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (1) (1992), 31-47. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920910031. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 1 March 2018
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