Background
KNIBBS, George Handley was born on June 13, 1858 in Sydney. Son of late John Handley Knibbs, Sydney.
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George Handley KNIBBS
George Handley KNIBBS, British Professor of Physics. Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society; Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
Education
Sydney.
Career
President Royal Society of New South Wales, 1898-1899, and its Honourable Secretary for nine years. Royal Commissioner on all branches of Education for New South Wales, 1902-1906, and for Insurance for Federated Australia, 1909-1910. President of Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics Section, 1900, and President Statistical and Economic Section, 1908, of Australasian Association for Advancement of Science.
President of New South Wales Section of British Astronomical Association, 1897-1898. Of Sydney University Engineering Society, 1897-1898. Of New South Wales institution of Surveyors, 1892, 1893, 1900, 1901.
Of Society for ' Child Study, 1903, 1904, 1905. Representative i for New South Wales at two Intercolonial Professional Conferences. Has been Honourable Editor of several scientific and professional journals.
On Staff Trigonometrical and General Survey, New South Wales, 1877-1889. Independent Lecturer, Department of Engineering, University of Sydney, 1SS9-190G. Acting Professor of Physics, University of Sydney, 1905.
Director of Technical Education, New South Wales, 1905-1906. Delegate of Australian Government to five International Congresses in Europe, 1909. Publico.tions: Reports, monographs, etc. Federal Statist for Australia 1906, oiiicial title, Commonwealth Statistician.
Membership
Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Club : Australian, Sydney.
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Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society; Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Club : Australian, Sydney.
Connections
- Father:
- John Handley Knibbs
