Person
White, Geoffrey Lyndon (1909 - 1984)
- Born
- 17 November 1909
- Died
- 23 January 1984
Tasmania - Occupation
- Metallurgist
Summary
Geoffrey White was a Research Metallurgist at the Electrolytic Zinc Co. Risdon in Tasmania and the Commonwealth Department of Munitions.
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Chronology
- 1930
- Career event - Worked with A.L. McAulay and E.C.R. Spooner on electrode potentials in air-free electrolyte [Nature, 126 (1930), 914-915]
- 1930 - 1932
- Career position - Demonstrator in Physics, University of Tasmania
- 1931
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Tasmania
- 1935 - 1940
- Career position - Research Metallurgist, Electrolytic Zinc Co. in Tasmania
- 1940 - 1971
- Career position - Senior Scientific Glassworker; Physicist, Government Munitions Laboratories, Maribynong, Victoria, Department of Munitions
- 1964 - 1971
- Career position - Senior Research Scientist, Munitions Research Laboratories Maribyrnong, Victoria
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Roser, S. R.; and White, G. L., 'John Tebbutt's Observations of Halley's Comet in 1910', Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 6 (1986), 354-358. Details
Resources
- 'White, Geoffrey Lyndon (1909-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473843. Details
Resource Sections
- 'White, Geoffrey Lyndon', 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/P001841p.htm. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 10 July 2026
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