Person
Stout, Reginald William (Reg) (1921 - 2001)
- Born
- 1921
- Died
- December 2001
- Occupation
- Technical officer
Summary
Reginald Stout worked for the Bureau of Meteorology for 35 years and played a major role in building up the Bureau facilities, particularly the radiosonde and radar networks and other meteorological instrumentation. He retired in 1981 and wrote "History of major meteorological installations in Australia from 1945 to 1981" in Metarch papers, no. 8 (1996).
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Published resources
Books
- Cornish, Allan, Memories of the Bureau of Meteorology 1929-1946 [and three other papers] ([Melbourne]: Bureau of Meteorology, 1996), 92 pp. Details
Resources
- 'Stout, Reginald William (1921-2001)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476017. Details
Resource Sections
- Cornish, A.; Stout, R.; Swan, K.; Glendinning, C., 'Memories of the Bureau of Meteorology 1929-1946: History of Major Meteorological Installations in Australia From 1945-1981: Four Years in the RAAF Meteorological Service: the Bureau of Meteorology in Papua and New Guinea in the 1950s', in Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0490.html. Details
See also
- Federation and Meteorology, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/index_s.html. Details
Helen Morgan
Created: 10 May 2001, Last modified: 15 September 2026
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