Biographical entry Courtney-Pratt, Jeofry Stuart (1920 - )

Summary

Jeofry Stuart Courtney-Pratt was a sort after physicist who worked for Australia's key industrial research organization, CSIR and several overseas companies. He was the Assistant Director of Research in physics at Cambridge, and Head of several departments at the American giants Bell Telephone Laboratories and AT&T Information Systems Laboratories.

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Events

1940 - 1946

Career position - Assistant at the Lubricants and Bearings Section of CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)

1942

Education - Bachelor of Education (Bed) completed at the University of Tasmania

1947 - 1949

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge, UK (1851 Exhibition Senior Scholarship)

1953 - 1957

Career position - Assistant Director of Research of the Department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge

1958

Education - Doctor of Science (ScD) received from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

1958 - 1969

Career position - Head of the Department of Mechanics and Optics at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, USA

1969 - 1982

Career position - Head of the Department of Applied Physics at Bell Telephone Laboratories

1983 -

Career position - Head of the Station Technology Department at the AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, USA

Published resources

Online Resources

• 'Courtney-Pratt, Jeofry Stuart', 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/P001630p.htm. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Courtney-Pratt, Jeofry Stuart', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1475552. Details