People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

25 February, 1922
Auckland, New Zealand

Death

9 May, 2011 (aged 89)
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• New Zealander

Education

• University of Melbourne

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• educational reformer
• physicist
• public servant
• university administrator

Awards

• Fulbright fellow

Clubs

• Commonwealth Club (ACT)

Key Organisations

• Royal Canberra Golf Club
• Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (national)

Workplaces

• University of Melbourne (physics)
• Australian National University (physics)
• Australian National University (administration)
• Universities Council (Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission)