People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

1 August, 1915
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Death

10 August, 1991 (aged 76)
Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cause of Death

liver dysfunction

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
• New Zealander

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• nuclear physicist

Awards

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Key Organisations

• Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering
• Australian Academy of Science
• International Fusion Research Council
• United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
• Australian Ionising Radiation Advisory Council
• National Energy Advisory Committee
• National Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Council

Workplaces

• Australian Atomic Energy Commission
• University of Sydney (physics)