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Seaton, Stuart Luman (1906 - )

Geophysicist

Born: 16 November 1906 Kirkwood, Missouri, United States of America

Stuart Luman Seaton was an American scientist who spent three years in Australia as an assistant at the Watheroo Magnetic Observatory in Western Australia (1935-1938).

Career Highlights

Chronology
1922 - 1929 Electrical Design Draftsman at Potomac Electrical Power Co. in Washington, USA
1929 - 1946 Magnetic Observer with the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA
1932 - 1934 Studied at the University of Maryland, USA
1935 - 1938 Assistant at the Watheroo Magnetic Observatory in Western Australia
1942 Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Alaska, USA
1946 - 1948 Physicist with the US Department of the Air Force
1948 - 1950 Director of the Geophysics Institute at the University Alaska
1949 Doctor of Science (ScD) received from the University of Alaska
1950 - 1954 President of Geosciences Incorporated
1954 - 1957 Geophysics consultant
1957 - 1962 Consultant to the US Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe
1962 - 1972 Technical Assistant in the Instrument Research Division at the NASA Langley Research Center, USA

Online Sources

'Seaton, Stuart Luman', 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/P001803p.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 31 August 2005

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