Person

Cairns, John Edwin Ingliston (1901 - )

Born: 27 January 1901
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation: Physicist and Company director

Summary

John Cairns was assistant at the Watheroo Magnetic Observatory 1922-1928 and later research physicist at EMI Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Details

Born Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 27 January 1901. Educated Universities of Western Australia (BSc 1924, MSc 1927) and Cambridge (PhD 1931). Assistant, Watheroo Magnetic Observatory 1922-28; observer-in-charge, Huacayo Magnetic Observatory, Peru 1931-34; research physicist, EMI Ltd, United Kingdom 1934-; director, Valve Division, EMI Electronics Ltd.

Published resources

Resources

'Cairns, John Edwin Ingliston (1901-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476172. Details

Resource Sections

'Cairns, John Edwin Ingliston', 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/P001617p.htm. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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