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Walter Duffield was Professor of Physics, Reading University, England 1910-1923 and was appointed the inaugural Director of the Solar Physics Observatory, Mount Stromlo near Canberra, in 1924. He was born in Adelaide and had studied with W.H. Bragg.Full description
Walter Geoffrey Duffield (1879-1929), astronomer, was born on 12 August 1879 at Gawler, South Australia, son of David Walter Duffield, merchant, and his wife Florence Evangeline, née Kirkpatrick, and...
The death occurred at Canberra last night of Professor Walter Geoffrey Duffield after a brief illness. He had been suffering from influenza, with pneumonic infection, and his brother, Mr. Kenneth Duffield,...
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- AU-ANU:ADBO : A080375