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Mercer, Edgar Howard (1913 - )

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Physicist and Biologist

Born: 16 February 1913 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Edgar Howard Mercer has had a long and extremely varied career. He has worked in the disciplines of physics, chemistry, biology and electron microscopy and in industries as diverse as textiles, animal health, and human dermatology. Throughout his career, Mercer worked in Australia, the United Kingdom and in the United States of America. One of his last positions was Professor of Biology at the University of Hawaii.

Career Highlights

Chronology
1935 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Adelaide
1937 Honours in Science completed at the University of Adelaide
1939 - 1941 Physicist at the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Division of Animal Health and Nutrition
1941 - 1947 Physicist at the National Standards Laboratory
1947 - 1949 ICI Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK
1948 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Leeds
1949 - 1952 Research Officer at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Industrial Chemistry
1952 - 1953 Electron Microscopist at the Textile Research Institute at Princeton, USA
1953 - 1962 Electron Microscopist(?) at the Chester Beatty Institute for Cancer Research in London
1960 Doctor of Science (DSc) received from the University of Adelaide
1963 - 1967 Head of the Electron Microscopy Unit at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra
1967 - 1969 Research Assistant in the Department of Dermatlogy at the University of California Medical Centre in San Francisco, USA
1973 - 1981 Professor of Biology at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA

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'Mercer, Edgar Howard', 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/P001750p.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 3 August 2005

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