People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Alternative Names

• Jelley, Joan Maie
• Freeman Jelley, Joan Maie
• Freedman, Joan Maie
• Freedman, Joan Maia

Birth

7 January, 1918
Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Death

18 March, 1998 (aged 80)
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Cause of Death

stroke

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.

• English

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Presbyterian

Education

• Sydney Church of England Girls' Grammar School
• Sydney Technical College
• University of Sydney
• Cambridge University (UK)

Occupation

• autobiographer/memoirist
• defence scientist
• nuclear physicist
• physicist

Awards

• George Allen Scholarship in Mathematics (University of Sydney)
• Deas Thomson scholarship (University of Sydney)
• Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize (Institute of Physics)
• Officer of the Order of Australia

Key Organisations

• Institute of Physics (UK)
• American Physical Society

Workplaces

• CSIRO (radio physics)