Biographical entry Piddington, John Hobart (1910 - 1997)

Summary

Jack Piddington was Chief Research Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Physics, National Measurement Laboratory, Sydney 1966-1975 and had been a research physicist with the CSIR/O Division of Radiophysics 1939-1966.

Details

Born 6 November 1910. Died 16 July 1997. Educated Universities of Sydney (BSc 1931, BE 1933, MSc 1935) and Cambridge (PhD 1938). Walter and Eliza Hall Fellow 1936-38, Sydney University Fellow 1938-39, CSIR (subsequently CSIRO) Division of Radiophysics 1939-66, Radar consultant, British Army Malaya, Hong Kong, Burma 1941, Air Ministry UK 1944, Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Physics, National Measurement Laboratory 1966-75, Senior Research Fellow 1975-84. Syme Medallist, University of Melbourne 1944, Sidey Medallist, Royal Society of New Zealand 1959, Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1963.

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• John Hobart Piddington - Records, 1949 - 1998, MS 204; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Private hands (Piddington, J.H.)

• John Hobart (Jack) Piddington - Records, 1950 - 1987; Private hands (Piddington, J.H.). Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details

Journal Articles

• Grant, Colin Kerr, 'Three Pioneers', Radar Returns, vol. 12, no. 2, 2007, pp. 7-8. Also available at http://radarreturns.net.au/assets/issues/rrvol12no2S.pdf. Details
• Melrose, D. B. and Minnett, H. C., 'Jack Hobart Piddington 1910-1997', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 12, no. 2, 1998, pp. 229-246. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9981220229.htm. Details
• Piddington, J. H. and Oliphant, M. L., 'David Forbes Martyn', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, vol. 2, no. 2, 1972, pp. 47-60. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9720220047.htm. Details
• Piddington, John Hobart, 'Ronald Gordon Giovanelli 1915-84', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 2, 1985, pp. 223-236. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9850620223.htm. Details

Online Resources

• 'Piddington, Jack Hobart', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000711p.htm. Details
• 'Piddington, John Hobart (1910-1997)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476133. Details
• Ward, C., 'Jack Hobart Piddington', in CSIROpedia, 2011, http://csiropedia.csiro.au/display/CSIROpedia/Piddington%2C+Jack+Hobart. Details

See also

• Paterson, M. S., 'John Conrad Jaeger 1907-1979', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 5, no. 3, 1982, pp. 64-88. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9820530064.htm. Details