Austin Burton Edwards (15 August 1909 – 8 October 1960) was an Australian geologist, winner of the Clarke Medal in 1960.
[14] In June 1931, while playing with Old Caulfield Grammarians in C-Section of the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association, he was chosen (as a back-pocket resting ruckman), to play for a Combined C-Section team, against a Combined B-Section team as a curtain raiser to the inter-State amateur football match between Victoria and South Australia, on the MCG.
),[19] on the basis of his submission of "42 published papers, covering work in petrology, economic geology and physiography".
In the process, he became the associate of Frank L. Stillwell (1888-1963);[28][29] and on Stllwell's retirement in 1953, Edwards became officer-in-charge of the mineragraphic section of what had become the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (C.S.I.R.O.).
[4] He collapsed and died in Rome on 8 October 1960 while on a working visit to Europe.