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Harper, Arthur Frederick Alan (1913 - 1991)

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Physicist

Born: 5 July 1913 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Died: 10 September 1991.

Arthur Frederick A. Harper joined the CSIR/O National Standards Laboratory in 1939 and led the Heat and Temperature Measurement Section of the Division of Physics for 30 years. He was also involved in Australia's conversion to the metric system of measurement.

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'Harper, Arthur Frederick Alan', 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/P001336p.htm. [ Details ]

'Primary description of person CP 619; Arthur Frederick Alan Harper', in RecordsSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CP+619. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 30 August 2006

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
Originally published 1994-1999 by Australian Science Archives Project, 1999-2006 by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
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