Biographical entry McCarthy, Ian Ellery (1930 - 2005)

Summary

Ian Ellery McCarthy was Professor of Physics at Flinders University in South Australia for nearly thirty years (1968-1996). Prior to this he held Professorships at two universities in the United States of America. Throughout his career McCarthy worked in several distinct areas of theoretical physics. He was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 1982 and was also a Fellow of the American Physical Society (FAPS) and the Australian Institute of Physics (FAIP). Ian McCarthy presented invited papers at a number of international conferences and was (co)-author of numerous peer-reviewed publications.

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1952

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

1956

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at the University of Adelaide

1956 - 1960

Career position - Postdoctoral research at the universities of Cambridge (UK), Minnesota (USA) and California (USA)

1960 - 1963

Career position - Lecturer then Senior Lecture in Mathematical Physics at the University of Adelaide

1963 - 1964

Career position - Associate Professor of Physics at the University of California in Davis, USA

1965 - 1967

Career position - Professor of Physics at the University of Oregon, USA

1968 - 1996

Career position - Professor of Physics at Flinders University in South Australia

1982 -

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

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Published resources

Journal Articles

• 'Obituary: Ian McCarthy', Australian Academy of Science Newsletter, vol. 62, April-July 2005, p. 11. Also available at http://www.science.org.au/newsletters/aas62.pdf. Details
• Thomas, Anthony W., Afnan, Iraj R. and Tandy, Peter C., 'Ian Ellery McCarthy 1930-2005', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 19, no. 2, 2008, pp. 161-89. Details

Online Resources

• 'McCarthy, I E', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-504186. Details