Biographical entry Snyder, Allan Whitenack (1940 - )

Summary

Allan Whitenack Snyder is Director of the Centre for the Mind at the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering; Foundation Head of the Optical Sciences Centre and Professor of Optical Physics and Vision Research at the Australian National University in Canberra. His research covers the area of global mental processing.

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1960 - 1961

Career position - Communications engineer at Peter Kiewett and Sons

1961 - 1963

Career position - Research Assistant at the Ionospheric Research Laboratory of the Pennsylvania State University, USA

1963 - 1967

Career position - Senior Research Scientist in the Sylvania Applied Research Laboratory (General Telephone and Telegraph Laboratories) in Boston, USA

1967 - 1968

Career position - Consultant to the American General Telephone and Telegraph Company

1968 - 1970

Career position - Consultant to Post Office Research Department of Great Britain

1969 - 1970

Career position - Consultant to Standard Telecommunications Laboratory

1969 - 1971

Career position - Senior Research Fellow in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, and Applied Physics at Yale University Medical School

1971 - 1979

Career position - Senior Research Fellow, then Senior Fellow and Professorial Fellow in Applied Mathematics at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University

1972 -

Career position - Consultant to the Advanced Techniques Laboratory of the Australian Post Office

1974

Award - Research Medal received from the Royal Society of Victoria

1974

Award - Edgeworth David Medal received from the Royal Society of New South Wales

1978 -

Career position - Chair of Optical Physics and Visual Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Studies

1980 - 1983

Career position - Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Institute of Advanced Studies

1985 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1985

Award - Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal received from the Australian Academy of Science

1987 -

Career position - Head of the Optical Sciences Centre at the Institute for Advanced Studies

1988 -

Award - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)

1990 -

Award - Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)

1991

Award - Sutherland Memorial Medal received from the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences

1995

Award - CSIRO Medal received

1996

Award - Massey Prize received from the Australian Institute of Physics and the Institute of Physics (UK)

1997 -

Career position - Foundation Director of the Centre for the Mind at the Australian National University

1997

Award - Australia Prize received

2001

Award - Marconi International prize received

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• 1997 Australia Prize: Professor Allan Snyder (Australia), Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, https://grants.innovation.gov.au/scienceprize/Pages/Doc.aspx?name=previous_winners/Aust1997Snyder.htm. Details
• 'Allan Snyder', The Tall Poppy Campaign, http://www.tallpoppies.net.au/cavalcade/snyder.htm. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Snyder Allan Whitenack', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476349. Details