Person

Greenwood, John Neill (Neill) (1894 - 1981)

Born
12 December 1894
England
Died
30 August 1981
Occupation
Metallurgist

Summary

Neill Greenwood held chairs in Metallurgy and Applied Science at the University of Melbourne 1924-1964.

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Chronology

1927
Award - Doctor of Science (DSc), honoris causa, University of Melbourne
1968
Award - Doctor of Applied Science (DAppSc), honoris causa, University of Melbourne

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Archival resources

The University of Melbourne Archives

  • John Neill Greenwood - Records, 1894 - 1981; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

  • McCarthy, Gavan, The Papers of John Neill Greenwood (1894-1981) (Melbourne: Australian Science Archives Project, 1987), 16 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Rasmussen, Carolyn, 'Greenwood, John Neill' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 17 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/greenwood-john-neill-12564. Details
  • Rasmussen, Carolyn, 'A Metallurgist Looks at Russia: Professor J. Neill Greenwood and the Soviet Union' in Political Tourists: Australian Travellers to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s, Fitzpatrick, S and Rasmussen, C, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2008), pp. 78 - 101. Details

Journal Articles

  • Greenwood, John Neill, 'Some fluctuating stress tests on mild steel (Lecture & Discussion)', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers 1931-1932 (1933), 16-18. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24752. Details

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See also

McCarthy, G.J.

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