Record ID:
59680940 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1926
  • Tasmania
Lived/located in:
  • Macquarie Island, Tas. Calgary, Alta. Brisbane Hobart
Occupations:
  • Physicist Academic
Used for:
  • Parsons, Neville, 1926-
  • Parsons, N. R. (Neville Ronsley), 1926-
Notes:
  • Wikipedia, viewed 3 March 2017 (Neville Ronsley Parsons PM is a retired Australian physicist and Antarctic researcher. Parsons was born in Tasmania in 1926, and educated at Scotch College, Launceston and the Universities of Tasmania and Melbourne. From 1949 Parsons spent fourteen years on the staff of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE), spending 1950 at Macquarie Island and 1955 at Mawson Station in Antarctica as a cosmic ray and auroral physicist ... He also spent the summers of 1961-62 and 1963-64 at Macquarie Island participating in joint programs with the University of California of high-altitude balloon studies of x-rays associated with auroral displays ... Neville Parsons was awarded the Polar Medal in 1956. He was a founding member of the ANARE Club in 1951. In 1964 he moved to the University of Calgary in Canada where he continued auroral research, becoming Professor of Physics and then Head of the Faculty of Science. He returned to Brisbane in 1978 and, in 1988, retired from the position of Director of the Brisbane College of Advanced Education, resettling back in his native Tasmania) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Parsons
  • Observations of the aurora australis, Macquarie Island, May 1950-April 1951 (Neville Ronsley Parsons)
  • London gazette, 30 October 1956, issue 40914 page 6129 (The Queen has been graciously pleased, on the advised of Her Majesty's Australian Ministers, to approve the following awards of the Polar Medal for good services as members of the Australian National Antarctic Research Exepdition to Mawson, 1955-56:- ... Neville Ronsley Parsons, M.Sc., Physicist) https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/40914/page/6129
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)911835
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda
Authentication code:
  • anuc