Person

Fletcher, Geoffrey Charles

Occupation
Theoretical physicist

Summary

Geoffrey Fletcher was a theoretical physicist noted for his research on the influence of electron energies on the physical properties of solids, and for developing the electron band theory. He worked particularly on band structure calculations for nickel, iron, manganese, rhodium, gold, and complex alloys. He migrated to Australia in 1957, after a distinguished career at Exeter University College, to become Senior Lecturer in applied mathematics at the University of Sydney. Here he developed close ties with CSIRO physicists at the National Measurement Laboratory, situated on campus. In 1965 he moved to Monash University. After retiring in 1983 he continued his research in association with CSIRO colleagues at Clayton. To mark Fletcher's 70th birthday, a meeting was held in 1992 was held at Monash, the papers subsequently being published as a Festschrift.

Skip to

Details

Chronology

1941 - 1945?
Career position - Served with the RAF
1949
Education - BSc, Imperial College, London
1950
Education - DIC, Imperial College, London
1951 - 1953
Career position - Assistant Lecturer, Exeter University College
1953
Education - PhD, Exeter University College
1953 - 1957
Career position - Lecturer in applied mathematics, Exeter University College
1957
Life event - Migrated to Australia
1957 - 1965
Career position - Senior Lecturer in applied mathematics, University of Sydney
1965 - 1983
Career position - Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, Monash University

Related Corporate Bodies

Published resources

Books

  • Fletcher, G. C., The electron band theory of solids (Amsterdam: North Holland, 1971), 260 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Finlayson, Trevor, 'Electron band theory loses Geoffrey Fletcher', Australian physics, 44 (1) (2007), 12. Details
  • Finlayson, Trevor R.; Morgan, Michael J.; and Choy, Tuck C. editors, '[Papers presented at the Festschrift "Electrons in solids: the 1990s and beyond", held 11 December 1992 at Monash University to mark the 70th birthday of Geoffrey Fletcher]', Australian journal of physics, 46 (5) (1993), 597-728. Details
  • White, Guy, 'Introduction [to papers presented at Festschrift to mark the 70th birthday of Geoffrey Fletcher]', Australian journal of physics, 46 (5) (1993), 599-600. Details

Resources

Rosanne Walker and Helen Cohn

Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 10 May 2022

EOAS ID: biogs/P002348b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 February (Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#kooyang
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002348b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260