Biographical entry Mills, Bernard Yarnton (1920 - )

Summary

Bernard Yarnton Mills was Professor of Astrophysics, University of Sydney 1965-85 and earlier Reader 1960-65. As a Senior Principal Research Officer in the Division of Radiophysics, CSIRO 1957-60, he helped design and build the Mills Cross Radiotelescope, Hoskinstown, New South Wales.

Details

Born 8 August 1920. Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1959, Fellow, Royal Society 1963.

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Archival resources

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

• Bernard Yarnton Mills - Records, 1925 - 1972, DeB 584; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

University of Sydney, Archives

• Bernard Yarnton Mills - Records, 1944 - 1985, P 154; University of Sydney, Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• The Radiophysics Laboratory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, A Textbook of Radar, Angus & Robertson, Sydney; London, 1947, 579 pp. Author of Chapter 14. Details

Journal Articles

• Christiansen, W. N.; Mills, B.Y., 'Biographical Memoirs [Joseph Lade Pawsey, including publications]', Australian Physicist, vol. 1, no. 9, 1964, pp. 137-141. Details

Online Resources

• 'Mills, Bernard Yarnton', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-581621. Details

See also

• Crompton, R. W., 'Leonard George Holden Huxley 1902-198', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 8, no. 4, 1991, pp. 249-264. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9910840249.htm. Details