People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

5 March, 1919
Woolwich, Kent, England

Death

27 January, 1998 (aged 78)
Mornington, Victoria, Australia

Cause of Death

heart disease

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

Education

• Strand School (London UK)
• Imperial College London

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• computer scientist
• historian of science
• mathematician
• physicist

Legacies

• Pearcey Medal (Pearcey Foundation)

Key Organisations

• Australian Computer Society (national)

Workplaces

• Air Defence Research Development Establishment (UK)
• Royal Radar Establishment
• CSIRO
• University of Sydney (mathematics)
• University of Melbourne (mathematics)
• Control Data Corporation (Minneapolis, USA)
• Control Data Australia Pty Ltd
• Caulfield Institute of Technology (Melbourne)
• Monash University