Person
Nelson, Edith Alice (1890 - 1976)
- Born
- 10 February 1890
Victoria, Australia - Died
- 26 April 1976
- Occupation
- Physicist
Summary
Edith Nelson was a Lecturer in Natural Philosophy at the University of Melbourne 1948-1953. She had taught in the department in 1923 as a demonstrator and 1924-1948 as a senior demonstrator.
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Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Resources
- 'Nelson, Edith Alice (1890-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473857. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Nelson, Edith Alice', 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/P001768p.htm. Details
See also
- Carey, Jane, Taking to the field: a history of Australian women in science (Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Press, 2023), 297 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 23 May 2024
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