George F. Dodwell

George Frederick Dodwell (13 February 1879 in Leighton Buzzard, England – 10 August 1963 in Adelaide, Australia) was an Australian astronomer.

In 1907 he married Annie Louisa Virginia Trehy, herself a versatile scientist who died in 1924.

[4] In June 1909, after the death of Sir Charles Todd, Dodwell became Government Astronomer for South Australia, a position he held until his retirement on 31 October 1952.

On 21 September 1922, Dodwell photographed the total solar eclipse in northern South Australia to collaborate with foreign astronomers in an early study of Einstein's theory of the effect of gravity on the propagation of light.

He is buried in Nailsworth (North Road) Cemetery, Adelaide alongside his wife.