Biographical entry Wood, Francis Waverley (1905 - )

Summary

Francis Waverley Wood worked in many fields of physics across Australia and in the United Kingdom and United States of America. He posts included Officer-in-charge at the Watheroo Magnetic Observatory (1946-1949) and Deputy Director of Trials at the Weapons Research Establishment (1965-1968).

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Events

1926

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Western Australia

1926 - 1932

Career position - Assistant at the Watheroo Magnetic Observatory in Western Australia

1936 - 1937

Career position - Research Officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough, UK

1937 - 1946

Career position - Research Physicist at CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) Radio Research Board

1946 - 1949

Career position - Observer-in-charge of the Watheroo Magnetic Observatory

1949 - 1951

Career position - Research Fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA

1951 - 1956

Career position - Assistant Chief Geophysicist with the Bureau of Mineral Resources

1956 - 1965

Career position - Superintendent of Optical Instrumentation at the Weapons Research Establishment in South Australia

1965 - 1968

Career position - Deputy Director of Trials at the Weapons Research Establishment

Published resources

Online Resources

• 'Wood, Francis Waverley', 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/P001846p.htm. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Wood, Francis Waverley', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476178. Details

See also

• Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Melbourne, 1995, 267 pp. Details