Walter George Woolnough

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Walter George Woolnough (15 January 187628 September 1958) was an Australian geologist.

Woolnough was born in Brushgrove, Grafton, New South Wales, educated at Sydney Boys High School, Newington College and the University of Sydney. In 1897, as an undergraduate, he accompanied Edgeworth David's expedition to Funafuti Atoll, where Charles Darwin's theory of the formation of coral reefs was tested.

Woolnough lectured in geology at the University of Sydney from 1898 and then at the University of Adelaide until 1912. He was the first Professor of Geology, University of Western Australia from 1913 to 1919 and geological advisor to the Commonwealth of Australia 1927-41.

Woolnough was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1933.

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  • David Macmillan, Newington College 1863-1963 (Sydney, 1963)
  • Peter Swain, Newington Across the Years 1863-1998 (Sydney, 1999)

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Awards
Preceded by
Frederick Chapman
Clarke Medal
1933
Succeeded by
Edward Sydney Simpson