Monday, 09 Oct 2017
  • Director of Mount Stromlo

Don Mathewson was Stromlo’s first Australian Director since its founder Walter Geoffrey Duffield. Mathewson began his career in radio astronomy at the CSIRO in 1955, before moving to Manchester to complete his PhD

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Monday, 09 Oct 2017
  • Director of Mount Stromlo

Born in England in 1906, Woolley’s family moved to South Africa when he was fifteen.

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Monday, 09 Oct 2017
  • Director of Mount Stromlo

Matthew Colless was the tenth director of Mount Stromlo.

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Monday, 09 Oct 2017
  • Director of Mount Stromlo

Mould pushed for the commercialisation of the Research School’s technical skills.

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Monday, 09 Oct 2017
  • Director of Mount Stromlo

Mount Stromlo’s fifth Director, Olin Eggen, was a ‘scientific nomad’ who worked in Observatories in the United States, England, South Africa, Australia and Chile over his illustrious career.

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Monday, 09 Oct 2017
  • Director of Mount Stromlo

Bill Rimmer, ex-engineer and WWI captain, led the Commonwealth Solar Observatory during the 1930s, overseeing the Heliostat's construction amidst financial challenges.

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Monday, 09 Oct 2017
  • Director of Mount Stromlo

Harvey Butcher came to Mount Stromlo in 1970 as a PhD student, lured by the prospect of studying the Southern Sky with the 74” telescope’s Coude Spectrograph.

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Wednesday, 04 Oct 2017
  • News

Mount Stromlo was one of three government-run facilities that the gunsights.

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Friday, 29 Sep 2017
  • News

To enhance Australia's defence capability by building industrial capability in sensor and on-board data processing for drones and small satellites.

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