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Kidson died suddenly of a heart attack on 12 June 1939, aged 57. Kidson's widow, Isabel, lived another twenty years. In her will she left sufficient funds for a scholarship - The Edward & Isabel Kidson
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Methods of Weather Analysis Applied to the Australia-New Zealand Area: Part I. Discussion. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Meteorological Branch, 20
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a combination of physics and mathematics to undertake postgraduate study in meteorology or some other branch of science, either in New
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