Person
Parnell, Thomas (1881 - 1948)
- Born
- 5 July 1881
Northampton, Northamptonshire, England - Died
- 1 September 1948
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Academic and Physicist
Summary
Thomas Parnell was Professor of Physics at the University of Queensland from 1919 to 1948.
Details
Chronology
- 1903
- Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), St John's College, Cambridge, UK
- 1904 - 1911
- Career position - Tutor at Trinity College, University of Melbourne
- 1911 - 1918
- Career position - Lecturer in Physics, University of Queensland
- 1917 - 1919
- Military service - First World War. Lieutenant, Australian Imperial Force
- 1919 - 1948
- Career position - Professor of Physics, University of Queensland
- 1921 -
- Career position - Foundation Councillor (Physics), Australian National Research Council
- 1937
- Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
- 1939
- Career event - President, Section A (Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy), Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Gregory, Helen, Vivant Professores: Distinguished Members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Library, 1987), 180 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Home, R. W., 'Parnell, Thomas (1881-1948), Physicist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 570-571. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150663b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Parnell, T., 'Presidential address: Physical quantities [Section A - Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy]', Report of the twenty-fourth meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Canberra meeting, January, 1939 (1939), 17-25. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1783425. Details
- CA 2001 Australian Imperial Force, Base Records Office, 'NAA: B2455, Parnell Thomas', B2455 First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=8007333. Details
- 'Parnell, Thomas (1881-1948)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1463605. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Parnell, Thomas', 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/P001777p.htm. Details
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Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 5 September 2024
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