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Biographical entry Downes, John Godkin (1917 - 1984)
- Born
- 5 September 1917
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 12 December 1984
Hawk's Nest, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Radiophysicist and Scientific liaison officer
Summary
John Godkin Downes was Scientific Counsellor with the Australian Embassy in Moscow from 1976 to 1979. Prior to this he was chief of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's (CSIRO) Division of Textile Physics. Altogether he spent around thirty years working for the CSIRO (formally the CSIR).
Details
Events
- 1938 - 1945
- Career position - Engineer at AWA Ltd. (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia)
- 1945 - 1951
- Career position - Research Scientist in the Division of Radiophysics at CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)/CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
- 1946
- Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc (Hons)) completed at London University?
- 1951 - 1968
- Career position - Research Scientist in the Division of Textile Physics at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
- 1969 - 1975
- Career position - Chief Scientist at the CSIRO Division of Textile Physics
- 1976 - 1979
- Career position - Counsellor (Scientific) of the Australian Embassy in Moscow
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Published resources
Online Resources
- 'Downes, John Godkin', 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/P001637p.htm. Details
- National Library of Australia, 'Downes, John Godkin', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476173. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 March 2007
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