DUFFIELD, WALTER GEOFFREY (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 grandson of Walter Duffield. He attended
Queen's School and the Collegiate School of St Peter, Adelaide. After graduating
B.Sc. from the University of Adelaide in 1900 he won the Angas engineering
scholarship and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, England, where he obtained his
B.A. after two years. He spent 1903 at the National Physical Laboratory on a Nobel
research studentship.
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Walter Geoffrey Duffield was Professor of Physics, Reading University, England 1910-23 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.
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