Degree For Aborigine
Sir, —1 believe that Mr Perkins mentioned in your newspaper on Monday is not the first aborigine to graduate from a university. Unfortunately I have no access to records, but I think you will find that a Mr David Unaipon graduated M.A. in mathematics from Melbourne University early in this century. Mr Unaipon explored the mathematics of the flight of boomerangs. From the work that he did came the design of the ships’ propellers formed on the boomerang aerodynamic principles, which are popular in Scandinavian and other northern European shipping circles. It is at least 30 years since I last read anything of Mr Unaipon but I believe that what I have written is substantially accurate. Perhaps someone of your readers might supply more information. —Yours, etc., ALLEN T. SIMPSON. January 11, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30956, 12 January 1966, Page 10
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136Degree For Aborigine Press, Volume CV, Issue 30956, 12 January 1966, Page 10
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